AMD adds Radeon Image Sharpening on Polaris Graphics Cards!

Zyll Goliat · Sep 29, 2019

Since 19.9.2 drivers AMD implemented Radeon Image Sharpening on Polaris video cards,so if you are owner of following video cards:RX 470,RX 480,RX 570,RX 580,RX 590 from now on you can enjoy in RIS!!!

Just go into yours Radeon Settings and click on Display and you will find option to turn ON or OFF Radeon Image Sharpening.
Also Impact on yours FPS performance in games when RIS is ON is literally negligible but sharpness and the quality of the image is clearly visible.

Bellow here is little split screen video-preview when is RIS ON and when is RIS OFF on my RX 480 in game Gears of War 5

Pay Attention to the edges and the letters on that wall

Read more information about this in PC WORLD article

potato580+ · Sep 29, 2019

dunno but it makes no difference in real test on rx 570 strix, better used monitor inbuilt sharpening feature

Zyll Goliat · Sep 29, 2019

potato580+ said:
dunno but it makes no difference in real test on rx 570 strix, better used monitor inbuilt sharpening feature

What game did you tried?It should work in all games that are done in DX9,DX12 and Vulkan but it's not yet supported in DX11 as far as I know.....

AlienIsGOD · Sep 29, 2019

Zyll Goliath said:
What game did you tried?It should work in all games that are done in DX9,DX12 and Vulkan but it's not yet supported in DX11 as far as I know.....

That is correct

delshay · Sep 29, 2019

Would it not be better to have this enabled by default & do away with the toggle switch instead of calling it a feature.

eidairaman1 · Sep 29, 2019

delshay said:
Would it not be better to have this enabled by default & do away with the toggle switch instead of calling it a feature.

Because games are not perfect and some could be affected by this function same with being on a nv card. Some cards just dont have the umph either.

potato580+ · Sep 29, 2019

hmm i think mostly cirrent games running on dx11, theres alittle games that suport dx12, might to switch to dx9 and see if this new amd drivers work, i will try it soon

Athlonite · Sep 29, 2019

As far as I knew it only operated with DX12 games not DX9/10/11 of Polaris gpus

INSTG8R · Sep 30, 2019

Athlonite said:
As far as I knew it only operated with DX12 games not DX9/10/11 of Polaris gpus

DX9, DX12 and Vulkan right now.

Athlonite · Sep 30, 2019

INSTG8R said:
DX9, DX12 and Vulkan right now.

Ah cool that'll be why FO4 looks a bit better than it used to then

Hyderz · Sep 30, 2019

i did notice the details on the character is definately sharper and a bit more defined

Zyll Goliat · Oct 1, 2019

Here is video bellow from few days ago that explain Radeon Image Sharpening in details

[4K] Tech Focus: Radeon Image Sharpening - What You Need To Know

potato580+ · Oct 1, 2019

wow looks good, anyway do this feature affect performance?

INSTG8R · Oct 1, 2019

potato580+ said:
wow looks good, anyway do this feature affect performance?

None that I have found in testing.

Thimblewad · Oct 1, 2019

Gimme this for my Vega...

Edit: As of September 30th and the Radeon 19.9.3 beta driver, Vega owners also have RIS, YEEEAH!!!

GoldenX · Oct 1, 2019

Gimme this for my 270x...

Thimblewad · Oct 1, 2019

GoldenX said:
Gimme this for my 270x...

As an alternative, I was using Reshade and one of the sharpening filters included in it. It's virtually the same, give it a try m8!

Zyll Goliat · Oct 1, 2019

potato580+ said:
wow looks good, anyway do this feature affect performance?

Hit in performance is negligible or almost non-existent is literally 1-2 FPS drops that I noticed.....

Cheeseball · Oct 1, 2019

Athlonite said:
Ah cool that'll be why FO4 looks a bit better than it used to then

Fallout 4 is only DX11 though. Unless this is another FO4?

robot zombie · Oct 1, 2019

Thimblewad said:
As an alternative, I was using Reshade and one of the sharpening filters included in it. It's virtually the same, give it a try m8!

That's what I use... the lumasharpen plugin is great and gives you a lot of options. I put some light fxaa underneath to keep any spare jaggies away. Performance hit isn't too bad. Used to run it easily on a 580 with a bunch of 4k textures.

Reshade also has the clarity shader, which is like a wide area contrast detect sharpen... honestly does more for perceived crispness than regular sharpening without cooking edges.

Athlonite · Oct 1, 2019

Cheeseball said:
Fallout 4 is only DX11 though. Unless this is another FO4?

you are right but it does seem to have an effect on it regardless textures just look crisper with it on than when it's turned off it might just be my eyes but I see what I see

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