Game-Changing Updates: FSR 4, AFMF 2.1, AI-Powered Features & More!

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We are launching the all-new AMD Radeon™ RX 9070, and RX 9070 XT today with an incredible set of new and updated software features. Read on to see what amazing experiences you’ll be able to take advantage of on our latest graphics cards.

FSR 4 – Enhanced Upscaling, Powered by AI

Available exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards, AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ 25.3.1 adds a new easy-to-use AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4^GD-187B (AMD FSR 4) upgrade feature that helps maximize performance at maximum quality in supported games. This feature automatically upgrades supported games with game integrated AMD FSR 3.1 temporal upscaling to use ML-powered AMD FSR 4 upscaling with a simple button in the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ UI.

The new ML-accelerated AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm is trained using high-quality ground truth game data on AMD Instinct™ GPUs and uses the hardware-accelerated feature of the AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture designed to give the user maximum upscaling quality while still providing a next-level gaming experience with a substantial game performance boost. AMD FSR 4 delivers a significant image quality improvement over AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling, with the ML-based algorithm designed to help improve temporal stability, better preserve detail, and reduce ghosting.

Utilizing features already built into the AMD FidelityFX™ API added when game developers integrate AMD FSR 3.1 into their games, the AMD FSR 4 Upgrade feature will be available or coming soon to 30+ games, with many more to follow later this year. 

The Alters	Bellwright	Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Creatures of Ava	Dragonkin: The Banished*	Enotria: The Last Song
FragPunk	Funko Fusion	God of War: Ragnarok
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered	Horizon Forbidden West	Hunt: Showdown 1896
Incursion Red River	Kristala	Marvel Rivals
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2	Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered	Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
MechWarrior 5: Clans	Nightingale	No More Room in Hell 2
PANICORE	Predator: Hunting Grounds	Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Remnant 2	Smite 2	The Axis Unseen
The Last of Us: Part I	The Last of Us: Part II Remastered**	Until Dawn
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2	Kingdom Come: Deliverance II***	Dynasty Warriors: Origins***
Civilization 7***
More to come in 2025…

*Dragonkin: The Banished scheduled to patch on 3/6 for FSR 4 support
**The Last of Us: Part II Remastered scheduled to release on 4/5 with FSR 4 support
***Windows 11 support only

When enabled in supported games with the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ application upgrade feature, AMD FSR 4 can be combined with existing in-game AMD FSR advanced frame-generation^GD-231A and AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2^GD-242 for ultra-smooth, ultra-responsive gaming at incredible frame rates on AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics cards.

 See endnotes RS-682A, RS-683A, RS-684A, RS-685A, RS-686A,RS-694A, RS-695A

Check out our FSR 4 video here: https://youtu.be/qPEj3q4Ihn0

Enabling FSR 4

Get started with AMD FSR 4 easily by following the steps below.

1. Ensure you have one or more of the FSR 4 supported titles installed on your system
2. Open AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition and click on the “Gaming” tab
3. Click on the “Graphics” sub tab

4. AMD FSR 4 can be enabled two different ways from this screen –
   1. Via HYPR-RX one-click preset: This enables AMD FSR 4 in games that support it, along with a host of other features designed to elevate a user’s gaming experience
   2. Via the “FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 AI Upscale” toggle: directly enable FSR 4 manually, allowing you to choose other software features to enable if desired (Radeon™ Anti-Lag is recommended).

5. At this point in time, you can launch your game and set the desired FSR preset from within the game menu.

Confirm FSR 4 is working by opening the AMD Software overlay (ALT+R) during gameplay and checking the FSR 4 status indicator to see if it is marked “Active”. You can also visually confirm each time you launch a game. A small overlay will appear that will indicate the status of FSR 4.

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1

AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF)^GD-234C is a cutting-edge in-driver frame generation technology designed to increase frame rates and gameplay smoothness and is part of AMD HYPR-RX^GD-225A, the one-click performance enhancing solution that automatically enables both in-driver and in-game AMD technologies. AFMF 2.1 delivers additional quality improvements that can help reduce ghosting, restore details and handle on-screen text overlays better.

AFMF works across thousands of games and is supported on AMD Radeon™ RX 6000, 7000, and 9070 series graphics cards and AMD Ryzen™ Processors with AMD RDNA™ 3 and RDNA™ 3.5 architecture-based Radeon™ integrated graphics.

 See endnotes RS-687A, RS-688A, RS-689A, RS-690A, RS-693A

Radeon Image Sharpening 2.0

Not only are there performance upgrades with AMD Software 25.3.1, but also visual improvements as well. With the original version of AMD Radeon Image Sharpening, users would be able to introduce clarity within their games, bringing out details of objects without creating visual artifacts that would be made with other sharpening effects. Now, in this latest version of AMD Software, AMD RIS 2 brings that personalized sharpening not only within your latest games, but across your desktop – adding more clarity and functionality for wider use cases, such as video playback.

New Re-Architected Encoder for Better Captures

Our improvements to visuals not only apply to games and your desktop, but also to your captures as well. The encoder found on our latest Radeon™ RX 9070 XT graphics card has been re-architected to deliver fast performance and improved visual quality from upgraded motion estimation and multi-frame reference, supporting up to 8K @ 75 FPS for HEVC and AV1.^GD-176

New Features Now Powered with AI

As AI continues to power new experiences, we’re excited to bring those advancements right within AMD Software. One new feature that will be introduced is the new AMD Chat, a local and secure, interactive chat function available for the Radeon™ RX 9070 Series graphics right at launch. By using the power of AI to leverage the latest advancements in GPU-accelerated natural language processing with ROCm, AMD Chat can provide accurate and relevant responses to user queries such as “what is HYPR-RX?” or “how can I use AMD Software to increase performance?”.

Ask AMD Chat questions related to your hardware and enable features directly from AMD Chat

At launch, AMD Chat will have the capability to answer common questions about users’ GPU, CPU and driver. It will also provide links to the difference sources behind where the information was obtained from, providing additional feature and product support for their AMD-powered PC. Users will also have the option to upload documents for AMD Chat to ask questions about the information uploaded, while displaying chat history and previous conversations for reference. AMD Chat does not require an internet connection and can be easily accessed through AMD Software, a hotkey shortcut, system tray or right-clicking on your desktop.

Summarize documents locally on your PC through AMD Software

AMD Chat will also have the power of text-to-image integration By utilizing a modern stable diffusion GPU-accelerated by DirectML, users can perform image generation right within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™. This works when no games / intensive applications are running.

Text-to-Image Generation within AMD Chat

The second AI-powered feature in this new software launch is the new AMD Image Inspector – an AI-based solution within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition that helps users get the best experience out of their graphics card. This new feature uses AI to quickly identify and capture potential image quality issues during a user’s gameplay, which can optionally be sent back to AMD servers to troubleshoot and improve AMD graphics drivers.

With AMD Image Inspector, users can choose to enable or disable this feature. Once enabled, they will have the option to always review the captured frames before they are sent to AMD and will also be able to modify where the captured media will go when it is logged.  This feature is part of the AMD User Experience Program and can be found within the settings and preference tab of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. See the white paper for more information.

Users will be able to find further AI-powered applications with the new parent tab in AMD Software called “AI” This tab will not only contain AMD Chat but also provide suggestions via the new AI Apps page for users to access new compatible AI-powered applications that have been tested to function well on AMD Ryzen and Radeon products.

Update Now, Expect More to Come

With this new launch of AMD Software, you can download and update it today to enjoy these latest features. Make sure you have our AMD Gaming blogs bookmarked so you’ll know when the next updates come, and stay posted to our socials on X and YouTube for the latest content and giveaways from AMD!

Warren Eng is a Product Marketing Manager at AMD. Currently he’s playing through the campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Endnotes:

RS-682A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Space Marine 2 application at 3840 x 2160, “Ultra” graphics preset. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-683A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Horizon Forbidden West application at 3840 x 2160, “Maxed” graphics preset. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-684A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 application at 3840 x 2160, “Extreme” graphics preset. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-685A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered application at 3840 x 2160, “Maxed” graphics preset with RT set to “Very High”. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-686A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart application at 3840 x 2160, “Maxed” graphics preset with RT Shadows, RT Reflections and RTAO set to “Very High”. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-687A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD HYPR-RX (RSR 1440p upscaled to 4K + AFMF 2.1) enabled versus AMD HYPR-RX OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the APEX Legends application at 3840 x 2160, “Ultra” graphics preset. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.RS-688A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD HYPR-RX (FSR 2 Quality + AFMF 2.1) enabled versus AMD HYPR-RX OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Kingdom Come: Deliverance II application at 3840 x 2160, “Very High” graphics preset. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-689A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD HYPR-RX (FSR 2 Quality + AFMF 2.1) enabled versus AMD HYPR-RX OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 application at 3840 x 2160, “Ultra” graphics preset. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-690A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD HYPR-RX (FSR 2 Quality + AFMF 2.1) enabled versus AMD HYPR-RX OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Star Citizen application at 3840 x 2160, “Very High” graphics preset. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-693A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD HYPR-RX 2023 (RSR-only enabled) versus AMD HYPR-RX 2025 (RSR/FSR + AFMF 2.1), on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the average across the following applications: Apex Legends, Baldur’s Gate 3, Forza Horizon 5, Borderlands 3, Far Cry 6, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Star Citizen and Frostpunk 2 at 3840 x 2160, maximum graphics preset. Performance may vary. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-694A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales application at 3840 x 2160, “Maxed” graphics preset with RT Shadows, RT Reflections set to “Very High”. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

RS-695A: Testing by AMD as of February 2025 on the AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT using an internal build of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver, AMD Smart Access Memory technology, and AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) technology with “Performance” mode and frame generation enabled versus AMD FSR 4 OFF, on a test system configured with an AMD Ryzen™ 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, MSI MEG x670E ACE motherboard, and Windows 11 Pro 2023 Update, using the Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered application at 3840 x 2160, “Very High” graphics preset. Performance is dependent on the AMD FSR 4 quality mode selected. AMD FSR 4 available on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics and is available in select games with AMD FSR 3.1 integration. System manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results.

GD-176: Video codec acceleration (including at least the HEVC (H.265), H.264, VP9, and AV1 codecs) is subject to and not operable without inclusion/installation of compatible media players.

GD-187B: AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) versions 1, 2, 3 and 4 are available on select games which require game developer integration and are supported on select AMD products. AMD does not provide technical or warranty support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution enablement on other vendors' graphics cards. See https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/fidelityfx-super-resolution for additional information.

GD-225A: AMD HYPR-RX works on the AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs and newer or the Ryzen 7040 Series APUs with integrated RDNA 3 graphics and newer. AMD HYPR-RX allows various features within AMD Software interoperate, working at the same time, including Radeon Super Resolution, FidelityFX Super Resolution, AMD Fluid Motion Frames, Radeon Anti-Lag, Radeon Anti-Lag 2, and Radeon Boost, where applicable to select titles.

GD-231A: Advanced frame generation interpolation technology when used with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3 inserts 1 frame between existing ones which can therefore enable up to 2x the framerate in supported games. GD-231A.

GD-234C: AMD Fluid Motion Frames, or AFMF, is a frame generation technology designed to increase frame rates and smoothness for game winning performance with minimal impact to image quality. AFMF is integrated into the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ Application. AFMF supports AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series and up discrete desktop graphics cards, mobile laptop and handheld systems with AMD Ryzen™ 7000, 8000, and Z1 Series Processors with AMD Radeon™ 700M Series Graphics and AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Processors with AMD Radeon™ 800M Series Graphics, including models with AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 and 7000 Series discrete mobile graphics supported in both hybrid mode and dedicated graphics mode, and AMD Ryzen™ 7000 and 8000 Series mobile and desktop processors with AMD Radeon™ 700M Series Graphics and AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series mobile processors with AMD Radeon™ 800M Series Graphics. GD-234C.

GD-242: AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 is available in select games which require game developer integration and is supported on select AMD RDNA™ architecture and above discrete and integrated graphics cards. See https://www.amd.com/en/products/software/adrenalin/radeon-software-anti-lag.html for additional information. GD-242.