AMD is catching up with Nvidia and Intel - working on support for pixel scaling

In early summer, Intel announced that support for pixel scaling technology, or integer scaling, was under development for the company’s graphics drivers. In August, Nvidia managed to sniff Intel at the confectionery by introducing a new driver with support for the technology, and in September, Intel finally delivered the promised support.

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Illustration from Intel’s introduction of support for pixel scaling.

The pixel graphics scaled up to a higher resolution in the previous graphics.

Now code in AMD’s graphics drivers for Linux reveals that pixel scaling is underway there as well. Pcgamesn reports that the October updates to AMD’s Linux drivers include a number of pixel scaling references. The references point to the English designation of the technology integer scaling which is mentioned both in older updates of the Linux drivers as well as newer ones.

Pixel scaling means that algorithms in combination with the graphics hardware scale up pixel graphics to higher resolutions, without the blurred and blurred edges that occur with traditional pure upscaling of pixel graphics. With pixel scaling, old retro-scented games with pixel graphics should be able to be scaled up to modern resolutions without the presentation being distorted.

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The revelation does not mention which technology or technologies AMD chooses to implement for pixel scaling. Intel’s implementations include, for example, standard pixel scaling but also the NN scaling technology where the graphics can be scaled up without being interpolated during the process. This means, among other things, that a larger part of the screen surface can be used.

As references to pixel scaling are so consistent in the work with drivers for the month of October, the introduction of the function should be imminent. On AMD’s support page, where visitors can vote for upcoming features, pixel scaling also leads to increased support for Radeon Image Sharpening.