AMD announces FSR 4.1 upscaler for RX 7000 and RX 6000 GPUs

In January of last year, AMD unveiled its latest generation of upscaling tech, bumping up FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) to the fourth generation. However, that release was exclusive to the RX 9000 series RDNA 4 graphics cards that it produces. Since then, the company has rolled out upgrades like ray regeneration and better motion clarity to the tech, improving it to version FSR 4.1. However, previous-generation AMD graphics card owners have still been stuck on FSR 3. That's about to change soon.

Jack Huynh, AMD's SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, today announced that the company has been working on bringing FSR 4 to more generations of its Radeon graphics cards, and that includes RDNA 3 and even older RDNA 2 generations.

"As a lifelong gamer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to push gaming experiences forward across CPUs, GPUs, software, and games," said Huynh today on a social media post. "My team and I have been working hard to evolve @AMD FSR 4 and bring it to more cards. We power over 1 billion gaming devices worldwide. It’s a responsibility we care deeply about."

The rollout will begin with the RDNA 3 generation, with AMD bringing FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards. This will begin rolling out in July with support for over 300 games.

Next, AMD is targeting the RDNA 2 generation. RX 6000-series cards are slated to receive FSR 4.1 sometime in early 2027, "bringing sharper visuals and smoother gameplay to even more gamers."

Compared to earlier versions, FSR 4 utilizes machine learning for its upscaling tech, much like Nvidia's DLSS implementation. This means it will bring major image quality enhancements for these RDNA 3 and 2 cards when using this newer version. We will have to wait and see if all of the tech's feature set will land on these cards or if it will be limited due to the older hardware present on them.