AMD is bringing its FSR 4.1 upscaling technology to Xbox Series S and X consoles, the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds, laptops and Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards. Xbox console owners will have to wait longer, but Microsoft’s Jason Ronald said in a post on X that developers will get access “very soon.”
FSR 4.1 starts reaching Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, Ryzen AI Max 300 and 400 series devices, and Ryzen AI 9 300 and 400 series devices today. Owners of RX 6000-series GPUs and devices powered by Gorgon Halo or Strix Halo can get it through the latest Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1 drivers.
AMD released FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 9000-series graphics cards in March. It had promised to bring the technology to older GPUs and handhelds this year. FSR 4.1 can improve performance in more than 300 supported games, including Cyberpunk 2077, Battlefield 6 and Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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The expansion comes weeks after Sony and AMD teamed up to bring Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, to the base PS5. That technology is based on their Project Amethyst work.
“We want to bring that work to more gamers,” said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s computer and graphics group. “We didn’t just bring it over, we made it better. We went back into the model, we tuned it and optimized the code path.”
FSR 4.1 could have a substantial effect on Xbox games, particularly on the less powerful Series S. “We’ve worked very closely with AMD to optimize this technology, giving developers another powerful tool for great performance and visual quality for players,” said Xbox CTO Scott Van Vilet. “Our teams are continuing to work together across hardware and software, and there’s even more ahead with Project Helix, leveraging FSR Diamond to power what comes next.”
Whether older AMD-powered handhelds would get FSR 4.1 was unclear until earlier this month. Valve has not confirmed support for the Steam Deck. The Xbox Ally’s Z2 A chip, which is getting FSR 4.1, is very similar to the chip in the Deck.
Ronald’s comment and the Steam Deck context were added in an October 20 update. The next stated step is access for Xbox developers “very soon”; AMD has not given a date for Xbox console owners.
