FSR “Redstone” is here, and it’s the future of gaming
FSR “Redstone” – Conclusion and Availability
Game support, performance, and more
This year, at least one FSR “Redstone” feature will be available in over 200 PC games. For the most part, this support will be provided through FSR Upscaling (formerly FSR 4). Since the start of this year, AMD has launched FSR 4 and added it to a huge number of games. When FSR 4 launched, we wanted AMD to bring it to more games. AMD answered our call and delivered results that exceeded our expectations.
Below, we can see FSR Redstone’s impact on Black Ops 7. Below, we can see enhanced reflection quality with ray tracing, and using FSR “Redstone” features, AMD has delivered framerates that are 4.7x higher than native 4K rendering. Note that this is without AMD’s FSR Radiance Caching tech.
Overall, AMD has claimed significant frame rate and performance advantages when using FSR “Redstone” technologies in supported games. On average, FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation achieve a 3.3x performance uplift for gamers. This highlights how much AI and Machine Learning can improve the performance/framerate of today’s PC games.
Available now to developers through GPUOpen
AMD’s FidelityFX SDK is now called the AMD FSR “Redstone” SDK. It is available today through GPUOpen, and it allows developers to integrate FSR “Redstone” into their games using “simple upgradable DLLs”. This should allow for easy FSR version upgrades in the future, either by developers or by AMD’s GPU drivers.
The future of Radeon on PC and consoles
We all know that AMD will be powering the next generation of consoles from Microsoft/Xbox and Sony/PlayStation. FSR “Redstone” may be targeted at PC gamers with RDNA 4 GPUs today, but it sets expectations for the next generation of consoles. Future consoles will be based on future AMD hardware, and that hardware will support FSR “Redstone”. That means we can expect to see these new ML features in many future games. After all, developers will want to experiment with the “next-gen” feature set.
In 2026, expect RDNA 4 PCs to get an early look at what the next generation of gaming will look like. Yes, Nvidia has its own technologies, but with future console support, these are the features that will be widespread in the future.
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