{"id":39301,"date":"2022-06-06T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metalfx-upscaling-will-bring-dlss-like-image-reconstruction-to-games-on-macos\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:30:49","slug":"metalfx-upscaling-will-bring-dlss-like-image-reconstruction-to-games-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metalfx-upscaling-will-bring-dlss-like-image-reconstruction-to-games-on-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"MetalFX Upscaling will bring DLSS-like image reconstruction to games on MacOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">Enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> MetalFX Upscaling, as visually described by Apple at WWDC 2022.<\/div>\n<p>Apple<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 278:single\/related:c050ff3eb9fb58982e66e5ba31a6eca2 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>CUPERTINO, Calif. \u2014 At this year&#8217;s WWDC, Apple announced a surprising new system coming to its Metal 3 gaming API that may sound familiar to PC gamers: MetalFX Upscaling.<\/p>\n<p>The system will leverage Apple&#8217;s custom silicon to reconstruct video game graphics using lower-resolution source images so that games can run more efficiently at lower resolutions while looking higher-res.  This &#8220;temporal reconstruction&#8221; system sounds similar to existing offerings from AMD (FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0) and Nvidia (Deep Learning Super-Sampling), along with an upcoming &#8220;XeSS&#8221; system from Intel.  Based on how the system is described, it will more closely resemble AMD&#8217;s system, since M1 and M2 silicon do not include dedicated AI processing cores like Nvidia&#8217;s RTX series of graphics cards.<\/p>\n<p>By announcing this functionality for some of the world&#8217;s most popular processors, Apple is arguably letting more game developers build their games and engines with image reconstruction \u2014 even if MetalFX Upscaling isn&#8217;t open source, unlike AMD&#8217;s FSR 2.0 system.  Still, these image reconstruction systems typically have temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) in common.  So long as game devs keep that kind of anti-aliasing in mind with their games and engines, they&#8217;ll be more likely to take advantage and thus run more efficiently on a wide range of consoles, computers, and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Metal 3 will also include a new &#8220;resource-loading&#8221; API designed to streamline asset-loading processes in video games, which currently sounds similar to Microsoft&#8217;s DirectStorage system to optimize visually intensive IO processes that might otherwise be bottlenecked by traditional protocols.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate this Metal 3 API milestone, Apple confirmed that popular and processing-intensive games <em>Resident Evil Village<\/em> and <em>No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/em> will come to macOS &#8220;later this year.&#8221;  Apple also says the same Metal 3 API benefits will land in iPadOS 16 this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ MetalFX Upscaling, as visually described by Apple at WWDC 2022. Apple CUPERTINO, Calif. \u2014 At this year&#8217;s WWDC, Apple announced a surprising new system coming to its Metal 3 gaming API that may sound familiar to PC gamers: MetalFX Upscaling. The system will leverage Apple&#8217;s custom silicon to reconstruct video game graphics using &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metalfx-upscaling-will-bring-dlss-like-image-reconstruction-to-games-on-macos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MetalFX Upscaling will bring DLSS-like image reconstruction to games on MacOS<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/listing-applemetalfxupscaling-760x380.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}