AMD is bringing FSR 4 to older Radeon playing cards, however you may have to attend

FidelityFX Tremendous Decision (FSR) is AMD’s various to upscaler tech like Nvidia DLSS, and it’s fairly good. However the newest body era goodies in FSR 4 are solely out there to the most recent Radeon 9000-series playing cards on the RDNA 4 structure, a transfer that has rankled avid gamers utilizing older however nonetheless highly effective Radeon 7000 and 6000 playing cards. At the moment, AMD is formally altering its tune… but it surely’ll nonetheless be a little bit of a wait.

“My crew and I’ve been working arduous to evolve AMD FSR 4 and convey it to extra playing cards,” says Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior vp answerable for computing and graphics. “This July, RDNA 3 gamers will expertise FSR Upscaling 4.1, delivering sharper visuals and smoother gameplay than ever earlier than.”

RDNA 3 playing cards embody the Radeon RX 7000 collection for desktop and discrete laptop computer playing cards. Technically, it additionally applies to built-in graphics within the 7X0M and 8X0M collection, in addition to Ryzen Z1 chips from 2023 (although the built-in graphics didn’t get a shout-out within the tweet). These built-in graphics, together with units just like the Asus ROG Ally household, do help FSR 3.1, so they may get the improve.

Huynh stored the excellent news coming for these on older {hardware}, but it surely’s going to be a fair longer wait. “And for our RDNA 2 gamers, now we have one thing thrilling coming in early 2027. FSR Upscaling will probably be coming to your playing cards as properly,” he added. RDNA 2 playing cards embody the Radeon RX 6000 collection of playing cards and built-in graphics within the 6X0M collection, which notably contains the APU utilized by the Steam Deck. The oldest shopper product on an RDNA 2 chip is the Radeon RX 6800 XT, launched in November of 2020.

Avid gamers have been fairly upset when FSR 4 debuted final yr and excluded all however the newest and most costly AMD graphics playing cards. (Many replies to Huynh are from avid gamers who bought their older Radeon playing cards and switched to Nvidia, they usually aren’t alone.) They in all probability weren’t any happier when the supply code leaked and it turned out that FSR 4 might run on each RX 7000 playing cards and even older Nvidia GPUs. One is perhaps tempted to take a position on whether or not that leak bought AMD’s groups engaged on the characteristic themselves, however it will solely be hypothesis.

FSR 4 will probably be out there in “over 300 supported video games” by the point RX 7000 house owners get entry to it in July. It’s doable to coax it into different video games with just a little tweaking, too.