AMD has announced that it plans to present a major upgrade for its graphics cards in December: FSR Redstone. New graphics cards will particularly benefit from this, while older AMD models will not.
What has AMD presented? AMD will hold its first event focused on FSR Redstone on December 10, 2025. This is reported by the magazine Tomshardware.com.
Redstone is expected to be AMD’s alternative to Nvidia’s DLSS 4.0 and aims to compete with it. FSR and DLSS are so-called upscalers that compute the image at a low resolution and then upscale it. This is intended to save performance in everyday use.
Redstone is expected to bring many benefits, but only new graphics cards will benefit
What disadvantage is there? FSR Redstone is expected to be exclusive to AMD’s RX-9000 series. Currently, this includes the RX 9070 (XT) and the RX 9060 (XT). This means that many older graphics cards would not benefit from the upgrade.
So far, it is also not known which games will be officially supported and what will happen to the previous version, FSR 4.0.
What does the feature look like currently? AMD’s current FSR version is number 4 and offers significant improvements compared to older models. However, there is a catch:
FSR 4.0 is also currently exclusive to RX-9000 series models, but can be used on older AMD models with tricks. This is partly due to the fact that 4.0 relies on machine learning (ML) with AI, which older graphics cards lack.
At least there has been ongoing consideration at AMD about whether to bring FSR 4.0, at least in a streamlined version, to older models.
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