Not all AMD Redstone features will be in every game
AMD has published a new Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 promo for its FSR Redstone update, confirming again that the launch targets Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs . The social post repeats the December 10 launch date and ties the feature set to AMD’s new RDNA 4 based lineup, matching earlier statements that Redstone is built for the latest Radeon hardware.
A small footnote at the bottom reads “ Feature availability varies by title. ” That note implies that Redstone will not appear as a single, uniform preset. Instead, each game will choose which modules it implements. Something we already witnessed in the Call of Duty game, however it wasn’t specifically stated that this is how Redstone will be introduced.
AMD has previously described FSR Redstone as a four part stack. It includes an updated FSR upscaler, machine learning based frame generation, Ray Regeneration for ray traced effects, and Neural Radiance Caching for indirect lighting. Games that advertise “AMD FSR Redstone” may only ship with a some of these features, such as upscaling plus frame generation, or only Ray Regeneration in titles that already use a separate upscaler.
New AMD FSR™ “Redstone” features arrive December 10.
Update and experience new performance and visual enhancements for Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics cards. This Is Why We Game. pic.twitter.com/b7wkWd0H0l— AMD Gaming (@AMDGaming) November 24, 2025
Given how many times AMD has now repeated Redstone is only for RX 9000 cards, it is safe to assume that AMD has no intention of enabling this technology for older generations. If it really launches with limited features per game, then I’m not sure what took so much time in the first place.
Hopefully AMD will “accidentally” leak its FSR Redstone source code so we have a chance to see how it would have performed on older architectures. FSR 4, which is officially exclusive to RDNA 4, did have a special version for older architectures. However, AMD never explained why these plans were dropped.
Source: AMD
