A new, significant update for the latest AMD Radeon graphics cards has just been announced to help the company directly compete with the AI-powered performance of Nvidia DLSS 4. Due later this year, FSR Redstone (as it is currently codenamed) looks to be a serious effort by AMD to improve how games look and perform on its hardware, thanks to several new features.
best graphics card contenders are able to effectively compete with Nvidia's GPU technology across the board.
AMD executive Jack Huynh shared the company's plans for the updated FSR release in his Computex 2025 keynote speech. According to Huynh, Redstone will ship with a few new super features, starting with neural radiance caching, a feature that uses a machine learning model to "continuously learn how light bounces in a scene to predict and store indirect lighting." We tested this tech as part of the neural rendering in Half-Life 2 RTX on an Nvidia GPU, and it makes a significant difference to the realism of lighting in games.
Redstone will also introduce for ray regeneration, giving AMD a direct competitor to Nvidia's DLSS Ray Reconstruction. It uses a neural network to regenerate inaccurate pixels that haven't been path-traced correctly, which should help with the quality of reflections in-game and improve super resolution upscaling overall.
AMD also confirmed that it's updating its frame generation technology with a brand new machine learning model that adds for temporal and spatial awareness, which it believes will lead to better accuracy in its generated frames.
This new update will only be available for the latest AMD RDNA 4 GPUs when it launches in the "second half" of 2025. We're hopeful that some of the technology could trickle down to older GPUs later, but for now, only RDNA 4 cards will the technology.
In the end, this is a much-needed update from AMD. FSR has always lagged behind Nvidia DLSS, but with AMD hardware now genuinely able to compete with Nvidia's own GPUs, the company can no longer afford to have such a striking gap when it comes to ing features.
The proof will be in the pudding, but on paper, FSR Redstone looks to be a very exciting upgrade indeed, and we'll be putting it through its paces when it launches later this year.
With AMD claiming that 60 games will have FSR 4 by June 5, for the updated technology is hotting up. You might want to check out our AMD Radeon RX 9070 review next, a GPU that easily outperforms the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, while helping to put the mid-tier GPU market into serious contention for the first time in years.
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