AMD has also introduced its brand-new FSR 4 & Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 technologies that increase image quality by leveraging AI & coming in 30+ titles at launch.
AMD FSR 4 & Fluid Motion Frames 2 Coming To 30+ Games At Launch & 75+ Titles Prepped For 2025
AMD has been increasing its FSR support, which now has over 400+ titles supported.
The journey started in 2021 with FSR 1 and has since seen various updates, such as FSR 2 in 2022, FSR 3 in 2023 and FSR 3.1 in 2024. All of these have brought in noticeable improvements with new technologies such as Frame Gen and an open integration commitment in various game engines.
There was one area where FSR lacked behind versus the competitors such as NVIDIA's DLSS and Intel's XeSS and that was AI-based upscaling using ML engines. But today, AMD finally launches its ML-powered upscaler, FSR 4. With FSR 4, AMD is promising:
- Fully Developed for AMD RDNA 4 & above
- High Quality & Low Latency Upscaling + Frame Gen + Anti-Lag
- Utilizes upgradable FSR 3.1 API
- Neural Rendering Ready
FSR 4 - Stepping Into The AI-Powered Upscaler Realm
For FSR 4, AMD has been training several custom game ML models on its Instinct accelerators, which are then integrated within the FSR 4 AI Upscaling Algorithm. This data is then passed onto Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA 4" GPUs, which offer up to 779 TOPS of AI acceleration to deliver high-quality and AI-enhanced upscaled 4K output. The scenes are then passed to the frame-gen algorithm, which generates several frames within the game and delivers the final result, which is smooth and great to look at.
The result is a scene which looks even better than a Native 4K output even with the FSR 4 Performance mode. The quality is also very similar to FSR 3.1's native AA preset and that's big.
AMD also shares some performance figures of FSR 4 against native 4K. The upscaling mode alone delivers a nice uplift, delivering up to 2x gains and an average uplift of 60%. With frame-gen on, the lead goes up to an average uplift of 2.8x and up to 3.7x in games such as Ratchet and Clank with RT enabled. You can comfortably achieve over 150 FPS with Frame-Gen enabled.
As for support, AMD's FSR 4 will be available in 30+ games at launch and over 75 titles are planned to support FSR 4 throughout 2025. Furthermore, developers have the flexibility to integrate FSR 4 with relative ease into titles that already support FSR 3.1. The following is the list of titles available on the launch day:
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6
- Call of Duty Warzone
- Creatures of AVA
- Civilization VII
- Dynasty Warriors Origins
- God of War Ragnarök
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Hunt Showdown 1896
- Kingdom Come Deliverance II
- The Last of Us Part I
- The Last of Us Part II
- Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
- No More Room In Hell 2
- Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
- Marvel Rivals
- Smite 2
- Space Marine II
- Spider-Man Remastered
- Spider-Man Miles Morales
- Spider-Man 2
- Until Dawn
- Bellwright
- Alters
- Dragonkin: The Banished
- Endoria: The Last Song
- FragPunk
- Funko Fusion
- Incrursion Red River
- Kristala
- Nightingale
- Paincore
- Predator: Hunting Grounds
- Remnant 2
- The Axis Unseen
The following are the game studios which are supporting AMD FSR 4:
- 11-bit Studios
- Activision
- Ballistic Moon
- Focus Entertainment
- Guerrilla
- Insomniac Games
- Krafton
- Naughty Dog
- NetEase Games
- Nixxes
- Peral Abyss
- Saber
- SEGA
- Torn Banner
HYPR-RX Gets The Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 Upgrade
AMD's HYPR-RX suite has also been a game-changer, especially on the mobility and handheld side of things. The platform features a one-click boost across thousands of games which can leverage technologies such as FidelityFX Super Resolution, Radeon Anti-Lag, Radeon Boost, Radeon Super Resolution and Fluid Motion Frames 2.
Today, AMD is introducing an updated version of AFMF called Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 which adds the following changes:
- Improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and better temporal tracking
- Support on Radeon RX 6000, 7000, 9070 Graphics cards and AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series CPUs
In comparison, AMD showcases how AFMF 2.1 reduces ghosting, offers finer feature restoration and adds better overlay handling.
As for performance, you are getting up to 3x the performance boost when enabling HYPR-RX with Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 on a Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU.
Enabling Frame Generation also leads to increased latency and, with Anti-Lag 2, you get up to 42% reduction in latency in upcoming titles such as Apex Legends.
But that's not all. AMD is promising even more features coming to its HYPR-RX suite soon, so expect updates throughout the year.
Software-Side Improvements & Latest Features In The Adrenalin Suite
AMD is also adding a slew of features to its Adrenalin Software which would enhance the overall gameplay and display experience.
One of these new features is Radeon Image Sharpening 2, which is now updated to provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases, apply sharpening to games, videos or across the entire desktop, and comes with a 1-click solution which is no longer dependent on apps or APIs and features cutting-edge efficiency designed to give more performance and power than the last version of RIS.
AMD's brand-new and re-architected Encoder also delivers faster performance on the Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA 4" GPUs with improvements across the board in image quality from upgraded motion estimation and multi-frame reference while supporting up to 8K @ 75 FPS (HEVC/AV1).
The AMD Adrenalin software suite also includes a range of new AI tools, such as the AMD AI Apps manager, AMD Install Manager, AMD Chat and AMD Image Inspector.
The AI Apps manager can launch several AI Apps directly from the software windows and reports AI Apps usage while displaying select AI Apps that have been installed by the user.
The Install Manager makes managing AMD software installations easier by setting up AI and PC ecosystems and automatically keeps user software up to date with customizable installations.
The AMD Chat bot is a personalized AI agent which provides a range of functionality such as:
- GPU-accelerated, local offline chatbot with image generation
- Answers common questions about users' hardware or software
- Enable key Adrenalin features by simply asking the chatbot
- Fully integrated into the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition application
- Supports English & Simplified Chinese
The GPU-accelerated model is backed by support for ROCm v6.3 and Microsoft DirectML v1.15.2.
One of the interesting implementations of the Adrenalin Suite is the AMD Image Inspector, which leverages AI to drive game quality improvements. The model is trained to detect various sorts of corruption within the game and, when enabled, it captures and sends diagnostic data (text and images) to AMD, which then helps enhance the User Experience.
Some of the artifacts that can be detected by the Image Inspector include:
- Shader Artifacts
- Square Patches
- Shape Artifacts
- Missing Texture
- Screen Stuttering
- Texture Overlay
- Pixel Corruption
- Discoloration
So at launch, AMD will be offering the Adrenalin Edition 25.3.1, which comes with all of these features along with the latest optimizations and enhancements for Radeon GPUs.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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