Sony Upgrades PS5 Pro's PSSR Upscaler In Time For Resident Evil Requiem

As triple-A gaming trends more and more toward graphically-intensive titles with ray tracing enabled, vendors are in a continuous march to improve upscaling solutions to offset skyrocketing performance demands. PlayStation is no exception, as it has now finally shipped an updated PSSR upscaler with the release of Resident Evil: Requiem, aka Resident Evil 9.

According to a new PlayStation blog post, Sony's updated PSSR upscaler came about as a result of its Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD, which also contributed to FSR 4. As Sony states, "through AMD's FSR 4 upscaling technology, PC gamers have already seen the benefits of our collaboration. With the updated PSSR, we're delivering the very latest of this co-developed technology with a further six months of refinement for PS5 Pro players."

PSSR is a feature exclusive to PlayStation 5 Pro, which is broadly comparable to AMD's also-AI-accelerated FSR 4 and currently ...