The upcoming third iteration of FSR will likely work with existing Radeon cards and competing GeForce offerings. AMD’s Frank Azor revealed this in an interview with PCWorld. According to the Alienware founder, FSR 3.0 is not a reaction to DLSS 3. Instead, he explained AMD’s open source approach and stated that designing an advanced scaler with frame-to-frame interpolation is not something that can do overnight.
FSR 3 is not a reaction or a quick thing to DLSS 3, it’s absolutely something we’ve been working on for a while. Why is it taking a little longer to come out than you probably expected? The most important thing to remember is that the philosophy of FSR and FSR so far not only work with RDNA 2 or RDNA 1, but also with other generations of AMD graphics cards. They also work with competing graphics cards. It’s exponentially more difficult than if we could just make it work with RDNA 3. We’re really looking forward to working on something other than RDNA 3.
Frank Azor, AMD
Addressing the underwhelming performance of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, he clarified that the GPU is meant to compete with the RTX 4080 rather than the 4090. The $999 price tag makes it $200 cheaper than its GeForce rival. So, even if it is slower in ray tracing workloads, it will be a very relevant product.
If this is true, AMD has once again left the flagship GPU segment to NVIDIA’s Titan/Ti offerings. We might see a faster SKU down the line with multiple compute arrays or a 3D stacked Infinity cache, but it certainly won’t make it to the upcoming RTX 4090 Ti.