AMD is allocating more resources to RDNA 3 FSR 4 support – Leaker claims
AMD’s pushing more resources into porting FSR 4 to RDNA 3 graphics cards
Rumour has it that AMD plans to bring support for its FSR 4 upscaler to RDNA 3 graphics cards, significantly broadening the user base of AMD’s new upscaling technology. Following the release of AMD’s FidelityFX SDK 2.0, which introduced FSR 4 support, AMD has reportedly allocated additional resources to implementing FSR 4 on Radeon RDNA 3 (and RDNA 3.5) GPUs.
This change wouldn’t only bring FSR 4 to AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs. With RDNA 3.5 support, AMD will bring FSR 4 support to the company’s integrated graphics chips. This will enable support for devices like ASUS’ ROG Ally, AMD’s Strix Halo-powered laptops and desktops, as well as a range of AMD-powered laptops.
AMD plans to bring FSR 4 to RDNA 3 GPUs – RDNA 2 users will not get FSR 4
Sadly, Moore’s Law is Dead, the source of this leak, has stated that AMD has no plans to bring FSR 4 support to RDNA 2 and older GPUs. This makes sense as AMD’s RDNA 3 and older GPUs lack integrated AI accelerators, which could make enabling FSR 4 more challenging. AMD needs to enable FSR 4 in a manner that is performant. Furthermore, FSR 4 still needs to deliver strong visual results.
Currently, getting FSR 4 to work on RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5 GPUs appears to be AMD’s priority. That would make FSR 4 functional on almost all of AMD’s current-generation devices.
But when it comes to FSR4 on RDNA3, it is coming. It hasn’t been cancelled. I was told that the SDK is just taking a ton of resources. And what I would infer is that the priority for AMD has been to improve FSR 4, prepare FSR 4 Redstone for deployment and port FSR 4 to PS5 Pro. So they are putting that as a priority over getting it working on older graphics cards. Um, but the good news is is that they are kind of finishing up some of the other work it sounds like. And so they are putting more people on the like RDNA 3 port team of FSR 4 right now. And it’s it’s just a lot of work.
They’re basically having to rewrite the code for FSR 4 like and that takes time. And so they’re going to do it though because they want PS5 Pro to get it which has basically RDNA 3.75 if you will. Um, and they definitely want their RDNA 3 cards. And again, I think most importantly, all of their Strix Halo laptops, their Hot Point mini PCs, their Strix and Phoenix laptops that are out there, they want all of those to eventually have FSR 4 support. And so, it’s going to come, but it’s probably going to come around quarter 1 or at the end of quarter 4. So, that’s what it is. It’s just taking a lot of work. They prioritized other stuff until now. and late quarter 4 or quarter 1 is when RDNA3 and RDNA 3.5 and PS5 Pro should get FSR 4. Now, the only thing I will say is this is there is a little bit of bad news on this one, and that is that I do not believe it’s coming to RDNA 2. Now, obviously, we’ve seen some hacked versions of FSR4 kind of running on RDNA 2 in a janky way. So, it sounds like they could plausibly port it to RDNA 2 in a nerfed way if they wanted to. I was directly told that they’re not doing that or at least there’s no resources going towards that right now. So, if it ever came to RDNA 2, it’d probably be a very long time from now and not perform remotely as well as you’d probably want it to. And so, you know, there you go.
Again, FSR 4 is coming to RDNA 3, 3.5, PS5 Pro, but don’t expect it until the end of this quarter or early next quarter. and uh it’s not coming to RDNA 2. All right.
AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards are selling well, especially within the DIY PC market. That said, enabling FSR 4 support on older hardware would significantly increase the number of supported devices. That alone could convince more game developers to support FSR 4, which would benefit AMD greatly.
If these rumours are true, AMD plans to bring FSR 4 support to its RDNA 3/3.5 devices in Q4 2025 or Q1 2026.
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