AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 Officially Released for Radeon RX 7000 GPUs

AMD has officially released the RDNA 3-focused FSR Upscaling 4.1 model for the Radeon RX 7000 series of graphics cards. This marks the first step towards deploying the FSR 4 technology across all RDNA gaming GPUs. According to a post on X by AMD’s Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Group, FSR Upscaling 4.1 is now available for RDNA 3 GPUs. With the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.6.2 graphics driver download, Radeon RX 7000 series gamers can enjoy more than 300 games running FSR 4.1, providing a significant performance boost and finally offering features that RDNA 4 gamers have been enjoying for a while. You can find some AMD-provided performance comparisons in the slides below.

We have confirmed that AMD’s FSR Upscaling 4.1 model for RDNA 3 GPUs is fundamentally different from the RDNA 4 version. RDNA 4 has native processing for 8-bit floating point data, allowing FSR 4.1 on RDNA 4 to run on FP8 data types. To get the FSR 4.1 Upscaling model to run on RDNA 3, AMD must convert this to 8-bit integer data, as RDNA 3 hardware uses INT8 data types without FP8 support. Generally, integer math is sufficient to optimize these models, but the conversion work is necessary, which explains the delay between RDNA 4 and RDNA 3 support. This difference required AMD to completely modify the FSR 4.1 model for the new data type and ensure there is no quality loss in the final visual output. AMD officially states that the visual fidelity is on par with the FSR 4.1 model that runs on RDNA 4.

Finally, AMD is also addressing RDNA 3-based APUs. Since integrated graphics are inherently weaker than discrete GPU solutions, some additional performance optimizations are needed. AMD claims that they are working on this with fine-tuned “lightweight machine learning models” to support FSR 4.1. Whether this includes RDNA 3.5 remains to be seen, but Valve’s recent leak of the INT8-based FSR 4.1 model shows that the technology runs on RDNA 3.5 without issues, so future updates from AMD are expected.