They sure took their sweet time didn't they. AMD have officially announced that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is officially coming to their older GPUs. We had a bunch of accidental source code leaks from AMD previously, so people have been able to quite easily hack away at getting FSR4 support on older cards anyway but it's good to see this now coming into official support.
We have this news direct from Jack Huynh, the SVP & GM, Computing & Graphics AMD, who posted on X:
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 🚀
It's not entirely clear how this will affect their open source Mesa drivers on Linux, presumably this now gives the Mesa developers and Proton developers the green light to just officially enable support by default. Hopefully then in a future Mesa release.
This could potentially then mean we'll see it on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine too.
Nice to see AMD actually giving gamers what they want.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: slayerthechickenis this still the bad timeline just with sprinkles of hope?Nope, this is still the timeline of despair. But now we have better visuals to go along with it. :D
Quoting: Stellawow, this is really really cool. and totally unexpected too. This means we no longer have to rely on hacks to enable the best FSR on older cardsYes, but we'll still need hacks to use FSR 4 on most games because they either only support DLSS or some ancient version of FSR incompatible with FSR 4.
Avehicle7887 3 hours ago
Quoting: SakuretsuNah, your game either has it or it doesn't.Quoting: Stellawow, this is really really cool. and totally unexpected too. This means we no longer have to rely on hacks to enable the best FSR on older cardsYes, but we'll still need hacks to use FSR 4 on most games because they either only support DLSS or some ancient version of FSR incompatible with FSR 4.
Quoting: Avehicle7887My RX 6800 (non xt), still going strong 5 years later. This is welcome news.Yeah, it'll be great once they finally release it... in "early" 2027. So a year away.
Unbelievable the timelines of these guys. I don't understand why the 7000 series is getting it sooner rather than a simultaneous release either. I understood the day 1 release for the 9000 series having it exclusively due to the older models lacking hardware, but what's the excuse here?
Devs still just implement FSR1/2 anyway half the time so no fsr3/4 support without optiscaler converting from dlss.
AMD has really pissed me off with their choices for things like this. They've been able to release rdna 2/3 fsr4 for months because modders did it with the leaked driver that included it. Somehow they still want us to wait months or a whole year or who knows how long. It's just nonsensical.
I had a 6800xt but upgraded to a 9070xt because I managed to be in the release day line for it and they still had $600 cards. It was worth it given the pricing of gpus, even still today, but man does it suck how long it takes them to release this stuff. I don't understand the timing of the announcement either.
Quoting: JesTechUnbelievable the timelines of these guys. I don't understand why the 7000 series is getting it sooner rather than a simultaneous release either. I understood the day 1 release for the 9000 series having it exclusively due to the older models lacking hardware, but what's the excuse here?RDNA2 lacks most of the hardware to run FSR4 in a performant way. IF you look at how the leaked FSR4 INT8 DLL runs, there is quite a bit of optimization needed here. They are releasing it for RDNA3 sooner because RDNA3 actually has some AI accelerators that 2 lacks, so it's easier to get a ML powered upscaling to work performantly on this architecture.
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