AMD's FSR 'Redstone' AI Upscaling Update Is Here

AMD has released FSR "Redstone," bringing a acceptable of caller upscaling tricks to the company's postulation of ML-powered upscaling tools. Unfortunately, arsenic was the lawsuit erstwhile it was conscionable FSR 4, Redstone is lone disposable for current-generation cards similar the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT – 2 of IGN's favourite GPUS.

One specified diagnostic is Ray Regeneration, which AMD says tin "clean up noisy ray-traced reflections and shadows earlier upscaling and interpolation." Gamers Nexus tried the diagnostic successful the lone crippled that supports this feature, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and it's impressive, resulting successful overmuch sharper lighting bouncing disconnected of, for instance, the aboveground of a excavation oregon glossy level tiles. Surprisingly, the differences are really less evident successful an AMD examination video hosted by Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD's computing and graphics group, showing the aforesaid crippled moving successful autochthonal 4K and with FSR Redstone on.

Here are a mates of screengrabs from that:

AMD promises the diagnostic volition beryllium disposable successful "more titles coming soon."

More players volition get FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation – that's the latest mentation of features that employment generative AI to make frames betwixt traditionally rendered frames to amended framerates. The caller Frame Generation update works with 32 games, according to a database connected AMD's website, arsenic The Verge points out. As that database besides shows, much than 200 games – including AAA titles similar Black Myth: Wukong and ARC Raiders – get wide FSR Redstone support.

The past large instrumentality up Redstone's sleeve with this update is Radiance Caching, a instrumentality that the institution says tin foretell airy behaviour to beef up ray tracing successful a much businesslike way. But that feature... isn't disposable successful immoderate games. AMD says it'll travel to games starting successful 2026.

If you person 1 of the GPUs that Redstone works with, you tin the update that brings it – AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.12.1 – is disposable connected AMD's website.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.