AMD expands FSR 4.1 beyond RDNA 4 after community backlash

[Redaktion]

AMD will extend FSR 4.1 support beyond RDNA 4, bringing the INT8 upscaling model to RX 7000 GPUs in July 2026 and RX 6000 GPUs in early 2027 after backlash over its initial exclusivity. The move addresses criticism sparked by a leak tying PS5 Pro's PSSR 2.0 to FSR 4.1 and offers older Radeon users an official alternative to unreliable community workarounds.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-expands-FSR-4-1-beyond-RDNA-4-after-community-backlash.1297216.0.html

[still bitter aftertaste]

Remember this comment on notebookchat?:

The leaked FSR4 INT8 looks so much better on RDNA3 / RDNA3.5, than what RDNA3 / RDNA3.5 officially support, but AMD is quiet about it (they are not the good guys (anymore/if they ever were)):
youtube.com/watch?v=VPMOjdvmHMk "FSR4 on RDNA3 on Windows!!! How To Guide and Side by Sides Tested on RX 7800 XT"
youtube.com/watch?v=yB0qmTCzrmI "AMD Tried To Hide This From You - FSR 4 INT8 on RDNA 3 & 2 Tested"

youtube.com/watch?v=v70p700D94U And here Owen shows that even AMD's /r/radeon hardcore crowd is starting to get pissed off on AMD for also not releasing FSR4 INT8 (and righteously so, of course).

If this was only released after community backlash, then it still leaves a huge bitter aftertaste and trust violations (however much can be trusted/argued about trust violations, when it comes to any company). Are we ever going to know if AMD releases FSR4 on RDNA3 only due to the backlash and not the INT8 leak? Let's see: [see next post..dumb spam protection..]

[still bitter aftertaste]

• Supposedly the Steam Machine (RDNA3 based) is getting FSR4 support, so it would be an interesting situation, to say the least, if other RDNA3 products wouldn't get official FSR4 support.
• Basically same goes for the PS5 Pro (custom SOC, but supports important hardware upscaling features from RDNA3 and 3.5) / PSSR2. Having PSSR 2, which is FSR4 based and it not working an RDNA3 devices, would be very hard, if not impossible, for AMD to sell to the people.

I hope this is not why RDNA3.5 was released, so that AMD could then say: "But this is RDNA3.5, not RDNA3, so we can't support FSR4 on RDNA3 devices.".
And RDNA2 devices are getting FSR4 hopefully not because of PS5 (RDNA2), right AMD, right?
After this small analysis, this may still stand:

@LAMG059
22 hours ago
The real OG is the guy who leaked the int8 version
Without them we would still be thinking that fsr4 isn't possible on rdna 3/2

Known people made videos about this news:

• Daniel, the guy who did the game testing (from the top quote) made a video about this: youtube.com/watch?v=iEuidxTCXTE ("FSR 4.1 Officially coming to RDNA 3 in July, RDNA 2 Q1 2027!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1")
• Hardware Unboxed also made a vid about this: youtube.com/watch?v=Krlram6cTJE ("FSR 4.1 for RDNA 3 - Better Late Than Never?")
• And this vid is also funny from the beginning: youtube.com/watch?v=yfDp_McpqUI ("AMD Surrenders FSR 4 – A Huge Win for XBOX over PS5! (+ RDNA 3.5 Leak)")

(The only thing not funny is, you, yes you, AMD, not officially stating that FSR4 (even if only INT8) will come to RDNA3 GPUs immediately at the latest after the INT8 leak. Do better next time, AMD. You can only win if you support previous generation hardware. Why do you think NVIDIA's marketshare grows? They support DLSS4 and even the new transformer (replaces CNN) model on all their RTX generations, even on RTX 20 series (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling#DLSS_4).)