Yes in my mind FSR stands for “Fucking Shitty Reconstruction”, I really can’t stand the look of it. I have honestly yet to find an instance where I didn’t actually prefer to just lower the res to whatever resolution FSR would have been using as a base, because my eyes just adjust to seeing pixels, but the FSR artifacts have an anti-tolerance effect where the more I see it, the more sensitive I get to it. It’s like the inverse of dynamic foveated rendering, where instead of the low quality part of the image being where you aren’t looking, the worst looking part of the image with FSR is anywhere that there is rapid movement, which is generally going to be exactly where your eyes are focused.

With upscaling becoming more and more relevant, they really need to make some major improvements here. I would love to buy AMD for my next card, but knowing that in the next few years even the most powerful GPUs will be using upscaling in most games means that going team red means a substantial hit to image quality, and the price difference is just nowhere near big enough to justify it to me.