Nearly a year after its reveal at Computex 2025—and only days after appearing for the first time in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7—AMD senior vice president and GM Jack Huynh announced on X that the company will host its first major showcase for FSR Redstone on December 10th.
Huynh also confirmed that Redstone will be exclusive to the RX 9000 series.
What FSR Redstone Actually Is
FSR Redstone is AMD’s next-generation graphics technology suite designed to take on Nvidia’s DLSS 4. The “Redstone” name covers several features, combining machine-learning upscaling, frame generation, neural radiance caching, and ML-powered ray regeneration.
RX 9000-series GPUs already support ML-based upscaling and frame generation through FSR 4, but Redstone adds two new pieces:
- Neural Radiance Caching, which accelerates path tracing by predicting indirect lighting and storing the results for later frames
- Ray Regeneration, which reconstructs missing or inaccurate ray-traced pixels—particularly useful for reflections and other complex lighting problems
These approaches parallel Nvidia’s Neural Radiance Fields and Ray Reconstruction technologies.
What to Expect on December 10th
AMD is expected to break down how Redstone works under the hood, whether it will replace FSR 4 entirely, and which games will adopt it beyond Black Ops 7.
There have been ongoing rumours that Redstone might be vendor-agnostic, meaning it could potentially run on Nvidia and Intel GPUs. Reports suggest that the technology is built using a ROCm-based pipeline operating at the shader-core level, which theoretically allows broader compatibility.
But… Redstone Looks RX 9000–Only for Now
Despite the speculation, the teaser shown by Huynh strongly suggests a hard lock to the RX 9000 series, at least at launch. The trailer exclusively highlighted RX 9000 support and didn’t mention anything about cross-vendor functionality or backwards support for the RX 7000 lineup.
This mirrors the situation with FSR 4, which is officially listed as RDNA 4-only but can still run—unofficially—on older hardware.
For now, Redstone looks to be an AMD flagship feature reserved for its newest GPUs, but the December 10th event should offer clarity on its long-term direction.
