By Kyle Barr
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 17:50:00
AMD, eschewing a number in favor of an esoteric moniker, is now positioning the new version of its upscaling tech, dubbed “Redstone,” as a true competitor to Nvidia’s DLSS (deep learning super sampling) software suite. You’ll need the latest AMD GPUs to get most of these updated features, but even if you don’t game on PC, you should be paying attention. This kind of software will inevitably change how we experience gaming on consoles and beyond.
The reason why most of your games remain playable at 4K resolutions is because of AI. Specifically, AI upscaling technology takes frames rendered at a lower resolution and bumps them up to a higher resolution, all while keeping the enhanced performance. That’s the simplified explanation of how this works. There are a multitude of other software working in tandem with upscalers to make these games look better without relying solely on native GPUs. “Redstone” is merely the barn where all these various software enhancements now roost.
What does ‘Redstone’ even do?
But upscaling may not be enough to give some games the true frame rate boost that some players demand. To that end, AMD is now pushing a new machine learning-powered version of frame generation. Yes, that’s another version of the infamous “fake frames.” The software uses an AI pipeline to insert frames in…