FSR, XeSS or nothing?

[Vlady]

I don't have trouble with FPS so the question is simple, which one looks best?
If you only think about getting the best visuals which one is the correct one?

[JigenDaisuke]

Nothing is the best choice for visuals.
FSR 2.1 set to "Native" is interesting as it pretty much completely eliminates aliasing, but the blurriness, ghosting and color banding issues it introduces make it not worth it.

[Erone]

Yeah, it looks better with neither enabled. The only downside is the pretty bad aliasing even on TAA, on hair especially.

[Dukeinator]

DLSS mod set native looks considerably better than FSR if you have an RTX card.

[Pain_Deluxe]

You get hefty banding and black gpu failiures with any off them..

So go with TAA

[Hoarder Robinson]

I think Xess is the best out of a bad bunch. Compared to FSR 2.1 it has more visible ghosting on distant objects, and it is less sharp when upscaling from the same resolution (Xess Quality vs FSR 2.0 Quality shows this pretty well) but there are 3 things that I think make it a clear winner. It is a lot better at handling certain transparencies(cats, seriously cats look like ass in FSR 2.1), it is also better at not ghosting things that FSR 2.1 loves to ghost(key items in certain cut-scenes, basically ruining them), and it is not prone to leaving nearest neighbor scaling artifacts like FSR 2.1(this usually happens on objects that FSR can't upscale). It's also better than TAA because TAA in this game comes with a horrible sharpening filter that leaves halos in the skies and outlines your character with a black line(seriously TAA is complete ass because of the over-sharpening).

I'm not sure how FSR 2.1 Native stacks up but I did all my testing at the Quality Setting for each Xess and FSR 2.1.

[Hoarder Robinson]

Oh and I forgot to add that particles are also under the category of transparencies. In FSR 2.1 the gpu particles(sparks and fire embers that are most noticable in EX mode) that are present while fighting appear to be invisible or less bright, whilst Xess preserves them.

Also banding issues with TAA have been fixed in the latest update.

[C.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Hope they update FSR 2.1 to 2.2 soon. It will improve the image quaility and reduce the ghosting. Nontheless, the game looks stunning.