After a year, AMD is bringing the FSR 4 update to its older GPUs

When AMD announced 4 of its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology early last year, it came with strings attached: Hardware-enhanced graphics can only be found on Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs based on the RDNA4 architecture, not on older Radeon GPUs.

So far, AMD has released only a few 90-series cards, including RX 9070 XT, and RX 90708GB and 16GB variants of Price of RX9060 XTand and RX9060 which are available to PC companies rather than end users. This list does not include any integrated GPUs, such as those found in AMD’s thin and light laptops or gaming consoles like the Steam Deck and its successors.

A year later, AMD Computing and Graphics SVP Jack Huynh is he announced that the FSR 4 version is coming to older GPUs. Releases will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-series GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs such as the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S.

“In early 2027,” support will be added to the RDNA2 architecture, which includes the Radeon RX 6000 series, integrated GPUs such as the Radeon 680M, and the Steam Deck GPU. This will also open the door to support FSR 4 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, both of which also use RDNA2 GPUs.

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Getting hardware-supported FSR running on older Radeon GPUs means that it works with INT8 hardware in the chips, not the FP8 data type that RDNA4 supports.

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Huynh’s short video didn’t compare performance, but he did mention that AMD had to work to get the high-end FSR 4 hardware running on its older builds. RDNA4 includes AI accelerators that support the FP8 data model in hardware, and applying FSR 4 to older GPUs means it will run on INT8 hardware in RDNA3 and RDNA2-based GPUs.