The full-fat Digital Foundry tech analysis of the new Pro mode.
How does PSSR fare in our first extended look at the technology?
Is this a good replacement for native 4K, or does it fall short of that lofty target?
DeveloperNaughty Dogis refreshingly open about the basic rendering setup in this update.
Texture art at oblique angles also resolves more clearly, though I believe anisotropic filtering tweaks are unchanged.
Geometric edges also look quite a bit sharper and better-defined than on the base console.
The Pro delivers a much stronger result here, without the blurred edges characteristic of regular upscalers.
Perhaps the most obvious edge though comes down to the way the game’s alpha-tested foliage resolves.
Image detail at rest is improved quite a lot overall.
Here the Pro delivers solid results.
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Other typical pain points for temporal AA techniques tend to fare reasonably well here.
Hair appears a bit less dithered and resolves with more detail.
Here, the performance mode and Pro deliver similar results, with the fidelity mode appearing substantially sharper.
Moving transparencies like this often suffer a bit with reconstruction, though the results here look fine enough.
Image stability is somewhat more mixed.
Rarely, scenes expose substantially more breakup on Pro than the base console.
In typical play though, I think both options are doing a good enough job.
Relative to AMD’s FSR 3, PSSR has clear merits.
We get top-class image quality on PC, especially relative to FSR 3.
