During the AMD roundtable held at IFA 2025, the company reaffirmed (as reported by ComputerBase via Videocardz) that it was planning to bring the latest generation of its upscaling and path-tracing tech, FSR Redstone, to the public by the end of the year. This is great news for fans of AMD Radeon GPUs, and for gamers generally, as it’s hoped that this will close the gap between AMD and Nvidia in terms of Ray-Tracing and AI-upscaling tech – more competition is always good for the consumer, and AMD’s pricing is typically cheaper than Nvidia’s when it comes to GPUs.
AMD is already the top dog when it comes to the best CPUs for gaming, could they knock Nvidia off the top spot for best graphics card? Probably not in terms of raw power, but its AI-powered features are getting better this year.
FSR Redstone is on schedule, AMD explained in response to a query. It is scheduled to be released this half year. As mentioned at the beginning, there will be a separate presentation for that.
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FSR Redstone new features
The improvements to FSR Redstone over the present version of FSR 4 include the following:
- Neural Radiance Caching: Dynamically predicts how light propagates through a scene, delivering efficient real-time global illumination.
- ML Ray Regeneration: AMD’s counterpart to Nvidia’s ray reconstruction techniques, this tech infers and restores full-quality ray-traced detail from sparse samples, producing sharp, noise-free visuals with reduced rendering cost.
- ML (Machine Learning) Super Resolution: Uses machine learning to reconstruct crisp, high-quality visuals from low-resolution frames. This is effectively an AI-enhanced evolution of FSR 4’s upscaling.
- ML (Machine Learning) Frame Generation: Predicts and inserts new frames between existing ones using ML, significantly improving motion clarity and frame rates in demanding, path-traced scenes.
Will Redstone only be compatible with RDNA 4 graphics cards?
Just like FSR 4 before it, FSR Redstone was initially expected to be limited to RDNA 4 graphics cards, i.e. the Radeon 9000 series, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, RX 9070, RX 9070 GRE, RX 9060 XT, and RX 9060. Unfortunately, this seems like it is still the case.
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A recent leak of the FSR 4 source code did show that AMD had been working on bringing it to older generation cards, however, this was scrapped – hopefully they re-attempt it in the future!
