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AMD finally dropped FSR 4 for integrated silicon — officially bringing next-generation upscaling to the Z Extreme handhelds and Strix Halo laptops. It’s built to be AMD’s silver bullet against Nvidia’s DLSS. A massive, free software upgrade that magically boosts picture quality and hands you more frames per second.

So over the past week, I’ve updated my ROG Xbox Ally X20 and TUF Gaming A14 with the new drivers and fired up the benchmarking tools to see what AMD has cooked.

And what I found completely breaks the current narrative. We’re all trained to think a new version of AI game scaling tech will send your frame rates skyrocketing.…