AMD is pushing out its FSR Redstone technology to supported graphics cards as part of a soft launch for the technology this week, allowing those with the proper GPU to gain further graphical boosts alongside an increase in performance. This is great for anyone with the right graphics card, especially since AMD has also expanded the list of games that support FSR Redstone, which is essentially FSR 4.
To be clearer, FSR 4, which AMD is now calling FSR Upscaling, is now part of FSR Redstone. FSR Redstone is the overarching technology that encompasses a few different FSR technologies. FSR Upscaling is one of those. Other included features are FSR Radiance Caching, FSR Ray Regeneration, and FSR Frame Generation. All three of these technologies are new, whereas the FSR Upscaling has been available for a few months. Hence, the expanded list of games that support it. Which is reportedly up to 200 or more .
The AMD FSR Redstone soft launch only supports a few graphics cards
To get straight to it, you’ll need an AMD Radeon 9000-series GPU if you want to have access to the FSR Redstone technology. This isn’t anything new for the industry, or even AMD. NVIDIA only allows access to its latest DLSS tech and other machine learning features with its latest GPUs. AMD has done the same with FSR 3 and FSR 2. It’s simply continuing this trend as the latest cards actually have the hardware to support the ML tech. That still means that consumers are limited to what they can buy if they decide to go with AMD over NVIDIA.
However, there are a few Radeon 9000-series options, and prices aren’t exceedingly high like they are with some NVIDIA cards. The XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, for example, is $669.99 right now . That’s below its MSRP.
But while cards are more accessible at this particular moment in time, not everything that’s part of FSR Redstone is supported in a ton of games . As The Verge points out, the new FSR Ray Regeneration only supports Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. That list will surely expand, but there’s no confirmation or roadmap on what that timeline looks like.
So the biggest reasons to get a 9000-series AMD GPU right now would be the more affordable price and the support for FSR Upscaling. Especially if FSR Upscaling is closer to matching NVIDIA’s DLSS 4.
