- AMD has revealed that FSR Redstone will debut on December 10
- This is a set of AI-powered technology to accelerate frame rates and improve visual quality.
- It's only for RX 9000 GPUs, and owners of RX 7000 (or earlier Radeon models) aren't happy about it, although the situation could change.
AMD has revealed that it will introduce FSR Redstone technology to improve frame rate and visual quality with upscaling on some Radeon GPUs on December 10.
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The speculation was largely that GPUs older than the current generation, which includes the relatively recent RX 7000 models, would be ruled out, but now that this is confirmed, many gamers are not happy. Why not? I'll get to that in a moment, but first, let's recap what Redstone is and what next-gen GPU owners are missing.
FSR Redstone is essentially a set of different technological innovations that are roughly equivalent to what Nvidia has achieved in more recent times with DLSS.
Redstone is based on FSR 4 and includes Ray Regeneration, which enhances ray-traced images and is equivalent to Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction.
There's also FSR Radiance Caching to improve lighting (like Nvidia's RTX Neural Radiance Cache) and a key addition in FSR Frame Generation, AMD's answer to Nvidia's Multi Frame Generation, which seriously increases the frame rate by generating more than one artificial frame. All of these features are powered by AI.
Analysis: RX 7000 and earlier GPUs remain in the dark… for now
AMD's Redstone release is a bit strange, as technically one skin has already arrived: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 had Ray Regeneration when it launched last week. However, the technology has faced criticism in this first incarnation and appears lacking compared to Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction. The Red Team has also declined to comment on this early release, with no official announcement left, leaving people speculating about what's going on here, frankly.
In any case, we now have an official release date for the full technology suite (presumably it will include all aspects of Redstone, as previously teased). The problem is in the exclusivity of the RX 9000 (RDNA 4) now confirmed; Many gamers with RX 6000 and RX 7000 graphics cards are not happy, especially in the latter field.
Let's face it, the next-gen flagship RX 7900 XTX is not an old GPU, and it's still a very powerful graphics card; in fact, it's a rival to the top RDNA 4 GPU, the RX 9070 XT, when it comes to rasterization (non-ray tracing gaming), if not more powerful in some cases. But clearly, when it comes to upscaling and the surrounding Redstone technology, this is where the next-gen flagship falls behind.
And when you consider how much money people spent on an RX 7900 XTX, it's not surprising that they're upset that Redstone is leaving them out in the cold. Some other RDNA 3 GPU owners aren't happy either, as you can imagine; I only highlight the flagship model to illustrate a particularly painful point in terms of its cost.
Of course, AMD may introduce support for RX 7000 GPUs at a later date. There will be reasons why Team Red is keeping Redstone for the RX 9000 graphics cards at the moment and indeed FSR 4 as well; Chances are you're worried about how it will work on older hardware.
However, that could – in fact, arguably should – change in the future, or so is the hope of many. Of course, there are no guarantees, which is why people get upset about the situation, especially if they spent a thousand dollars on a flagship RDNA 3.
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