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It’s official: FSR 4.1 is making its way to AMD Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards and is set to arrive in July. The wait is almost over for owners of RDNA 3 GPUs to use AMD’s recent ML-based upscaling tech, which, up to now, has been exclusive to the Radeon RX 9000 series. Based on FP8 2nd Gen AI accelerators, it has been carefully adapted to INT8 1st Gen AI accelerators.
AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh made the official announcement on social media yesterday that AMD’s engineers have been hard at work to bring FSR 4.1 to the RX 7000 series, but that’s not all. FSR 4.1 is being developed for the RDNA 2-powered Radeon RX 6000 series as well, but it’s going to take a little bit longer and is expected to arrive in 2027.
“As a lifelong gamer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to push gaming experiences forward across CPUs, GPUs, software, and games.
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.
This July, RDNA 3 players will experience FSR Upscaling 4.1, delivering sharper visuals and smoother gameplay than ever before.
I’m grateful to our fans. Your enthusiasm and ideas inspire us to keep pushing gaming forward.
FSR Upscaling 4.1 on RDNA 3 will be ready out of the box for Radeon 7000 Series players in over 300 supported games at launch.
And for our RDNA 2 players, we have something exciting coming in early 2027. FSR Upscaling 4.1 will be coming to your cards as well, bringing sharper visuals and smoother gameplay to even more gamers.
We cannot wait to show you what is next. Stay tuned”
– Jack Huynh, AMD Senior VIce President and General Manager of Computing and Graphics
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Given the current state of things regarding a lack of new GPU releases due to the ongoing chip shortage, it’s nice to see AMD finding ways to help owners of its older cards get more gaming performance. FSR is used in over 300 games, so this free generational AI accelerator upgrade is sure to be a welcome boon for gamers. The exact driver version and release date for RDNA 3 GPUs have not yet been revealed, but with only a little over a month to go, it will probably be in a matter of weeks.
As a child of the 70’s I was part of the many who became enthralled by the video arcade invasion of the 1980’s. Saving money from various odd jobs I purchased my first computer from a friend of my dad, a used Atari 400, around 1982. Eventually it would end up being a lifelong passion of upgrading and modifying equipment that, of course, led into a career in IT support.
