diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/D3D/PSTextureEncoder.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/D3D/PSTextureEncoder.cpp
index 6043da5c78..9b24783f6a 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/D3D/PSTextureEncoder.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/D3D/PSTextureEncoder.cpp
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ void PSTextureEncoder::Encode(u8* dst, const EFBCopyParams& params, u32 native_w
     // TODO: This only produces perfect downsampling for 2x IR, other resolutions will need more
     //       complex down filtering to average all pixels and produce the correct result.
     // Also, box filtering won't be correct for anything other than 1x IR
-    if (scale_by_half || g_ActiveConfig.iEFBScale != 1)
+    if (scale_by_half || g_renderer->GetEFBScale() != 1)
       D3D::SetLinearCopySampler();
     else
       D3D::SetPointCopySampler();
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/OGL/TextureConverter.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/OGL/TextureConverter.cpp
index 6c438b6a1f..67f1bcc28e 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/OGL/TextureConverter.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/OGL/TextureConverter.cpp
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static void EncodeToRamUsingShader(GLuint srcTexture, u8* destAddr, u32 dst_line
   // TODO: This only produces perfect downsampling for 2x IR, other resolutions will need more
   //       complex down filtering to average all pixels and produce the correct result.
   // Also, box filtering won't be correct for anything other than 1x IR
-  if (linearFilter || g_ActiveConfig.iEFBScale != 1)
+  if (linearFilter || g_renderer->GetEFBScale() != 1)
     g_sampler_cache->BindLinearSampler(9);
   else
     g_sampler_cache->BindNearestSampler(9);
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/TextureConverter.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/TextureConverter.cpp
index e0376c3cae..90920baf56 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/TextureConverter.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoBackends/Vulkan/TextureConverter.cpp
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ void TextureConverter::EncodeTextureToMemory(VkImageView src_texture, u8* dest_p
   // We also linear filtering for both box filtering and downsampling higher resolutions to 1x
   // TODO: This only produces perfect downsampling for 2x IR, other resolutions will need more
   //       complex down filtering to average all pixels and produce the correct result.
-  bool linear_filter = (scale_by_half && !params.depth) || g_ActiveConfig.iEFBScale != 1;
+  bool linear_filter = (scale_by_half && !params.depth) || g_renderer->GetEFBScale() != 1;
   draw.SetPSSampler(0, src_texture, linear_filter ? g_object_cache->GetLinearSampler() :
                                                     g_object_cache->GetPointSampler());
 
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.cpp
index 2741e14d09..63e3f5f5ed 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.cpp
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ void Renderer::RenderToXFB(u32 xfbAddr, const EFBRectangle& sourceRc, u32 fbStri
   }
 }
 
+unsigned int Renderer::GetEFBScale() const
+{
+  return m_efb_scale;
+}
+
 int Renderer::EFBToScaledX(int x) const
 {
   return x * static_cast<int>(m_efb_scale);
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.h b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.h
index 1c6bc44171..30f16c35a0 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.h
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/RenderBase.h
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ public:
   std::tuple<TargetRectangle, TargetRectangle>
   ConvertStereoRectangle(const TargetRectangle& rc) const;
 
+  unsigned int GetEFBScale() const;
+
   // Use this to upscale native EFB coordinates to IDEAL internal resolution
   int EFBToScaledX(int x) const;
   int EFBToScaledY(int y) const;
diff --git a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VertexManagerBase.cpp b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VertexManagerBase.cpp
index 870b9ad1e2..f06eb9b31a 100644
--- a/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VertexManagerBase.cpp
+++ b/Source/Core/VideoCommon/VertexManagerBase.cpp
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static void SetSamplerState(u32 index, bool custom_tex, bool has_arbitrary_mips)
     // that have arbitrary contents, eg. are used for fog effects where the
     // distance they kick in at is important to preserve at any resolution.
     state.lod_bias =
-        state.lod_bias + std::log2(static_cast<float>(g_ActiveConfig.iEFBScale)) * 256.f;
+        state.lod_bias + std::log2(static_cast<float>(g_renderer->GetEFBScale())) * 256.f;
 
     // Anisotropic also pushes mips farther away so it cannot be used either
     state.anisotropic_filtering = 0;