AMD Radeon VII will be compatible with DirectML technology, quite similar to NVIDIA DLSS

One of the great novelties of the AMD Radeon VII is that in the future it will be compatible with DirectML, a software version of the NVIDIA DLSS.

The information about the AMD Radeon VII does not stop, which gives a lot to talk about. The last we know is that Adam Kozak, Marketing Manager of Radeon Technologies Group has confirmed that this new graphics based on Vega 20 will support DirectML. Basically DirectML is a Microsoft DirectX API to add Machine Learning. This extension is already used in NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling using Artificial Intelligence.

AMD Radeon VII will support DirectML

Kozak has highlighted that currently in the Radeon division they are already messing with DirectML. For this they are using an SDK version of DirectML, which, as he explained, "already gives excellent results" with the new Radeon VII.

It should be clear that the new Vega 20 graphics in 7nm lithography does not have any specific hardware for Artificial Intelligence. NVIDIA's GeForce RTXs, on the other hand, feature Tensor Core, dedicated cores. DirectML in the case of AMD will be executed through software that for the moment will not be accessible to any user.

It cannot be used at the moment because Windows 10 does not currently support it. RayTracing was added by Microsoft using the DXR API specifically for this technology. As they have commented, the support for this technology will not arrive until the 'First 2019' when Microsoft implements it in Windows 10 through an update.

Microsoft indicates that DirectML is compatible with all DirectX12 hardware builds. This will allow AMD to develop a technology quite similar to NVIDIA DLSS. There is still enough to be available and then we must see the performance. DLSS provides a noticeable increase in performance, thanks to the hardware complement, while in the case of AMD it is completely software.

Source: DSOG