AMD’s new FSR Redstone upgrade just launched with support for over 200 games
Table of Contents
AMD has finally launched its next big upgrade for gaming performance, and it’s called FSR Redstone. This new version is built with machine-learning technology and is exclusive to the latest Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards. It aims to give players smoother gameplay, sharper visuals, and much better performance in supported titles. AMD has been teasing this update for a while, and now that it is here, it brings several major improvements that focus on both image quality and higher frame rates.
FSR Redstone is more than just an update. It is a full suite of new tools designed to improve the gaming experience, with much help from machine learning (ML). The first component is FSR Upscaling, which is the next evolution of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. It takes lower-resolution frames and rebuilds them into crisp, detailed images that look close to native resolution. The second big feature is FSR Frame Generation. This feature uses machine learning to predict new frames and place them between the ones rendered by the GPU.
AMD FSR Redstone has been launched on December 10
Another feature is FSR Ray Regeneration. This helps with ray tracing performance by filling in ray-traced detail using smart ML predictions. It reduces noise, boosts clarity, and lowers the performance cost normally required for ray tracing. Finally, FSR Radiance Caching improves how lighting behaves in a game. It learns how light moves through a scene and predicts the effect in real time, which can make environments look more natural without slowing the game down. Radiance Caching will be available in 2026 – the other three features have now launched.
AMD also confirmed that FSR Redstone already supports more than 200 games. It should be noted that any title with support for “one or more” of the FSR Redstone features is included within this figure. This includes some major titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Warzone, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Mafia: The Old Country, and many more. BO7 became the first game to get support last month, thanks to early adoption of ML Ray Regeneration.
Deals season is here folks, and with it comes a plethora of eye-catching price cuts on some of the industry's most popular tech. Below are some of the best deals you can find right now.
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Was $479/span> Now $454
- ASUS TUF RTX 5070 Ti Was $999 Now $849
- Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 Was $899 Now $649
- LG G5 65" OLED TV Was $2,996 Now $1,996
- Samsung Odyssey G9 (G95C) Was $1,299 Now $777
- Alienware Area-51 gaming laptop Was $3,499 Now $2,799
- Samsung 77-inch OLED S95F Was $4,297 Now $3,497
*Prices and savings subject to change. Click through to get the current prices.
The performance numbers shared by AMD are also impressive. With a Radeon RX 9070 XT, games can see massive FPS boosts when using FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation together. In Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the RX 9070 XT jumps from 73 FPS to 222 FPS at 4K, which is a 3x increase. Additionally, Horizon Forbidden West improves from 72 FPS to 166 FPS, while Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales reaches 224 FPS from 90 FPS. Ratchet and Clank also sees a huge 3.7x boost, going from 38 FPS to 142 FPS. FSR Redstone is exclusive to the RX 9000 series cards.
About the Author