AMD has released FSR “Redstone,” bringing a set of new upscaling tricks to the company’s collection of ML-powered upscaling tools. Unfortunately, as was the case when it was just FSR 4, Redstone is only available for current-generation cards like the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT – two of IGN’s favorite GPUS.
One such feature is Ray Regeneration, which AMD says can “clean up noisy ray-traced reflections and shadows before upscaling and interpolation.” Gamers Nexus tried the feature in the only game that supports this feature, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and it’s impressive, resulting in much sharper lighting bouncing off of, for instance, the surface of a pool or glossy floor tiles. Surprisingly, the differences are actually less apparent in an AMD comparison video hosted by Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD’s computing and graphics group, showing the same game running in native 4K and with FSR Redstone on.
Here are a couple of screengrabs from that:
AMD promises the feature will be available in “more titles coming soon.”
More players will get FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation – that’s the latest version of features that employ generative AI to create frames between traditionally rendered frames to improve framerates. The new Frame Generation update works with 32 games, according to a list on AMD’s website, as The Verge points out. As that list also shows, more than 200 games – including AAA titles like Black Myth: Wukong and ARC Raiders – get general FSR Redstone support.
The last big trick up Redstone’s sleeve with this update is Radiance Caching, a trick that the company says can predict light behavior to beef up ray tracing in a more efficient way. But that feature… isn’t available in any games. AMD says it’ll come to games starting in 2026.
If you have one of the GPUs that Redstone works with, you can the update that brings it – AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.12.1 – is available on AMD’s website.
Wes is a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they call him) who has covered technology, gaming, and entertainment steadily since 2020 at Gizmodo, Tom’s Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and most recently, The Verge. Inside of him there are two wolves: one that thinks it wouldn’t be so bad to start collecting game consoles again, and the other who also thinks this, but more strongly.
