AMD gives Vega video cards support for Radeon Image Sharpening

AMD gives its video cards with Vega GPU support for image sharpening technology Radeon Image Sharpening via a driver update. AMD introduced that technique for its Navi cards and has already brought it to some Polaris GPUs.

With the Radeon Adrenalin Software 19.9.3 driver, the Radeon VII, RX Vega 64, RX Vega 56 and Vega Frontier Edition get support for the sharpening technique. The technique only works with the Vega cards in games that use DirectX 12 or the Vulkan API.

In mid-September, AMD added support for Radeon Image Sharpening to a number of RX 500 and RX 400 cards with a driver update. The RIS technique was previously only available with RX 5700 cards with Navi GPU.

RIS is a technique that aims to sharpen images without having a major impact on performance. Developers don’t have to adjust their games. AMD uses a contrast adaptive sharpening algorithm that leaves edges of high-contrast objects untouched. That should reduce the chance of artifacts.