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11-03-2025
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The PS5 Pro will soon benefit from AMD's FSR 4 upscaling
Sony is set to enhance the PlayStation 5 Pro's visual performance by integrating AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling technology. This advancement stems from a collaboration between Sony and AMD, known as Project Amethyst, aiming to elevate the console's graphical fidelity. FSR 4, recently unveiled alongside AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards with RDNA 4 architecture, leverages machine learning with an aim to deliver image quality that is on par with Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). Unlike its predecessors, FSR 4 utilizes hardware-based machine learning for upscaling, optimizing performance and visual clarity. Mark Cerny, PlayStation's lead system architect, recently spoke to Digital Foundry where he highlighted that the neural network and training methodologies in FSR 4 are direct outcomes of the Amethyst collaboration, offering a more advanced approach that surpasses the current PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). The integration of FSR 4 into the PS5 Pro is currently targeted for gaming titles launching in 2026, with ongoing efforts to adapt the technology to the console's architecture. Cerny expressed confidence in the PS5 Pro's machine learning capabilities, noting its peak performance of 300 8-bit Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS), which aligns favorably with AMD's latest GPUs. Machine learning and ray tracing are going to be the PS5 Pro's key upgrades and could well be part of AMD's Amethyst project. During the RDNA 4 reveal, AMD showcased a demo using path tracing and neural rendering, including a denoising feature similar to Nvidia's ray reconstruction. While it is too early to say whether this integration will be successful, the development signifies a notable enhancement in upscaling technology for the PS5 Pro, promising gamers crisper and more stable visuals in future titles.
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10-03-2025
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PlayStation's Mark Cerny says a version of FSR 4 could be implemented on the PS5 Pro
AMD just debuted its new FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling tech on the latest Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 Ti GPUs, and it sounds like it might not be limited PCs. According to a new Digital Foundry interview with Mark Cerny, some version of FSR 4 will make it into the PlayStation 5 Pro via a software update rather than new hardware. "Our target is to have something very similar to FSR 4's upscaler available on PS5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PSSR," Cerny tells Digital Foundry. The PS5 Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) is a custom upscaling technology that lets the console run lower-resolution versions of games and make them appear like they're 4K, and by Cerny's own lengthy explanation, it was created using a combination of existing and future AMD tech. Based on our review of AMD's new GPUs, FSR 4 is not a miracle worker. In some cases it leads to a lower frame rate than you might get from FSR 3, but in exchange for more detail. That extra crispness, while subtle, will probably make a difference to someone who's already spent $700 on a "Pro" console. The comparison video below does a pretty good job of illustrating the improvements FSR 4 actually makes: Sony believes implementing FSR 4 on the PS5 Pro is even possible in the first place because the company also directly contributed to the development of the tech through its "Project Amethyst" collaboration with AMD. "The neural network (and training recipe) in FSR 4's upscaler are the first results of the Amethyst collaboration," according to Cerny. The company's work with AMD was announced with a focus on building new machine learning architecture for game graphics, but it will clearly have more immediate impacts on PSSR and current PlayStation consoles, too. "FSR 4 and this next evolution of PSSR are a paradigm for our future," Cerny tells Digital Foundry, "going forward we expect to have our own implementations of each of the algorithms developed through the collaboration."
