Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5

Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution. Gaming PlayStation Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5 Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution. It's deploying patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei today that make them the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR) through new graphics options.

SIE said the tech delivers "notable improvements" to image detail and stability, adding that every PlayStation developer will be able to add QSSR to their games. The company has offered PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling on PS5 Pro since the higher-end version of the console arrived two years ago and it has continued to iterate on the tech. In a blog post, Sony says players and developers asked whether it was possible to bring a similar option to the less-powerful PS5.

QSSR stems from a project that Sony worked on with AMD. It says it's now able to offer AI upscaling on PS5 thanks to "a streamlined neural network architecture" and "a hand-tuned implementation that maximizes performance." Mike Fitzgerald, head of technology at Wolverine developer Insomniac Games, said the tech "adds more pixel-level clarity and stability to our environments, bringing out extra detail amidst the busy streets of Madripoor, the dense alleyways of Shinjuku and many other areas across Logan's epic journey." QSSR is arriving on Ghost of Yōtei on the same day Sucker Punch Productions is releasing a complete edition for that game with a story expansion and a roguelike mode that's akin to The Last of Us Part 2 's No Return. Folks who already own the game can upgrade for $15.

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" that's a result of Sony's Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post.

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Sony says that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which is available on the PS5 Pro, “remains the gold standard,” and in Digital Foundry ’s early hands-on with the tech, it does seem that QSSR isn’t as fast as PSSR because the PS5 doesn’t have dedicated machine learning silicon. As a result, you should probably expect closer to an upscaled 1440p resolution on PS5 instead of the upscaled 4K on PS5 Pro.

”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.” But Craig also said that QSSR is “fundamentally a drop-in replacement for titles that already support PSSR” after only a few days of tuning, making it likelier that PS5 developers will take advantage.

The tech will be “offered broadly to all PlayStation developers,” Sony says. Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei will be the first games to take advantage of QSSR, and are getting patches today to offer the tech as “an additional graphics option on PS5.” ( Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition also launches today.) Here are a couple videos from Sony showing off how QSSR looks in those games, and it appears to make graphics a little bit sharper: Digital Foundry writes that “the potential here is remarkable: low resolution and poor upscaling have impacted so many titles in this generation, but QSSR could make a big difference.” Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

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