Assassin's Creed Shadows - PS5 Pro PSSR Update Tested - Improved Image Quality But What About Perf?

Assassin's Creed Shadows already delivers one of the biggest PS5 to Pro upgrades - but now the enhanced version is even more enhanced, thanks to RT improvements to the balanced mode and the addition of PSSR upscaling which looks to be worthy boost over the standard TAAU. Performance though? It's not quite what it was.

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00:00 Overview
00:46 TAAU vs. PSSR, pixel counts
08:28 Performance with TAAU and PSSR
12:46 Balanced mode improvements and performance
14:41 HDR issue with PSSR
16:16 Overall thoughts and conclusion