When AMD launched FSR Redstone, it changed its policy regarding the name given to its in-house technologies. The AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, and other AMD Frame Generation have been grouped under the branding FSR Redstone with the integration of the term ML for Machine Learning, along with a name change. The focus is no longer on the RDNA 2 or RDNA 3 cards, clearly AMD has turned away from these generations using open, but low-quality versions of its technologies, and RDNA 4 now consolidates the efforts. Even for the RDNA 4 cards, it is clear that AMD is trying to change the names to standardize things across the RDNA 4 cards and those to come, so there won’t be 5 FSR, 3 Frame Generation, etc.
On the day FSR Redstone was released, AMD abandoned the idea of using FSR only for Super Resolution, but instead grouped 4 technologies under this name which we have detailed in this post:
FSR Upscaling (formerly FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 or FSR 4)
FSR Frame Generation
FSR Ray Regeneration
FSR Radiance Caching
It was uncertain what would become of Anti-Lag 2, quietly embedded in games, and not more than 23 in the official list, which is few compared to NVIDIA’s Reflex equivalent, which is systematically integrated whenever there is Frame Generation, with a larger list. If AMD has had little, if any success in getting Anti-Lag 2 adopted in games, it is said they might do it differently. With the FSR SDK 2.2, a toolkit to help developers integrate AMD technologies into games, Anti-Lag 2 disappears in favor of FSR Latency Reduction 2.0. While not mentioned on the official AMD site, this name change should come soon if AMD still plans to define multiple components for its FSR Redstone.
One thing is certain, we don’t really know what AMD is up to behind the scenes. Although UDNA may not arrive as previously claimed by AMD themselves in favor of RDNA 5, players still remember the FSR 4 Gate on RDNA 3 cards, which has been difficult for those with RDNA 3 cards that also have completely unused Matrix Accelerators for this type of AI-based technology, unlike RDNA 2 cards. It would be good for AMD to put as much, if not more, energy into promoting its technologies for its GPUs as it does for its CPUs, as leaving NVIDIA alone in this segment will not benefit anyone, creativity thrives on competition. Currently, AMD seems to be scattered in all directions and seems to have made 36 horcruxes of itself, but is now trying to simplify and centralize all its tech under a single naming umbrella to make things clearer and more understandable. But players need substance now!
(Source: VDCZ)
