Sony Brings AI Graphics Upscaling to the Regular PlayStation 5

Sony launched a new AI upscaling technology called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) specifically built for the regular PlayStation 5 console. The graphics tool is the result of Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD and acts as a drop-in replacement for titles that already support the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution feature found on the Pro model. Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are receiving patches today to implement QSSR as an additional graphics option on the base hardware. Sony principal graphics R&D engineer Daniel Craig noted that developers must tune intermediate and final presentation targets carefully because the base console lacks dedicated machine learning silicon. ”On PS5 Pro, developers almost uniformly output to 4K and adjust render resolution beneath it,” Sony principal graphics R&D engineer Daniel Craig told Digital Foundry. “On PS5, teams have to be more flexible, tuning not just render resolution, but also their intermediate and final presentation targets depending on the graphics mode.”