Is FSR ruining the visuals on my Sapphire RX 9070 XT?
Whenever I looked at close-ups of ancient ruins, the stone textures looked like they were coated in oil—it was honestly stressing me out. The default sampling on the Sapphire RX 9070 XT in FSR Quality mode was aggressively smoothing out high-frequency details, killing the visual sharpness by about 30%. I tried switching to native 4K, but my FPS tanked from 85 to 42, which was an unacceptable trade-off. I went into the AMD Software panel and cranked the Radeon Image Sharpening from 20% up to 75% while locking the render resolution at 100%. Using a comparison tool, the edge contrast improved massively, and those tiny cracks in the stone became visible again. I actually pushed the sharpening to 100% at first, but it created hideous white halos around objects, so I backed it off to 72%. GPU temps are holding at 68℃ - 74℃ with fans at 1600 RPM. 3DMark texture tests confirm the precision is back, and the input feel is finally snappy.
