AMD's Frank Azor pushes back against claim that FSR 4.1 won't be ported to RDNA 3.5 GPUs — says 'no such decision' has been made
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AMD's Frank Azor pushes back against claim that FSR 4.1 won't be ported to RDNA 3.5 GPUs — says 'no such decision' has been made Azor posted about reports on X. During Computex, multiple reports cited that AMD was potentially skipping FSR 4.1 integration on RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, leaving these users with no choice but to use older FSR versions. AMD client and graphics marketing executive Frank Azor posted on X pushing back against this claim, suggesting RDNA 3.5 GPUs will indeed support FSR 4.1 in the future. The source of all this controversy reportedly originated from AMD’s VP and GM of Ryzen and Radeon products, David McAfee. Azor admitted in his X post that he wasn’t able to hear McAfee’s thoughts about FSR 4.1 support on RDNA 3.5 in person, however, he clarified that no decision to drop RDNA 3.5 support from AMD’s latest FSR implementation had been made. I wasn't there to hear the exact words said however I will share that no such decision as being reported and implied here has been made. We are not ready to speak to any other potential future product plans at this time. We continue to listen to our customers and we hear you.June 4, 2026 Azor's post is carefully worded, and doesn't make any promises one way or the other. But it does suggest that support for FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3.5 hasn't been dropped just yet. Even though RDNA 3.5 exclusively revolves around integrated GPUs and not discrete GPUs or graphics cards, many gaming-capable handheld devices and laptops come with RDNA 3.5-powered hardware, including Strix Halo-powered laptops featuring GPU hardware equivalent to an RTX 4060. All of these devices make RDNA 3.5 a highly valuable user base to keep supporting with FSR updates. There is also no architectural hardware difference that we are aware of that would prevent AMD from porting FSR 4 to RDNA 3.5. RDNA 3.5 is a incremental update over RDNA 3, primarily geared towards improving power efficiency. AMD finally announced official FSR 4.1 upscaling support for RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 GPUs last month. The move comes almost a year after AMD accidentally leaked its own FSR 4 version online capable of running on non-RDNA 4 hardware using INT8 instructions. FSR 4.1 is the latest iteration of the FSR feature set, including an improved upscaler that better preserves detail in motion and Ray Regeneration 1.1. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News, or add us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards. - Notton Videocardz vs. Frank Azor?Reply These info sources are awful. You might as well ask a magic 8 ball. - usertests Reply The source was Hardware Luxx, a German outlet, and they were told it directly from AMD's David McAfee.Notton said:Videocardz vs. Frank Azor? These info sources are awful. You might as well ask a magic 8 ball. AMD is the awful source in the end. - DS426 AMD needs to simplify their support policies: hardware that is in support and software that is in support are supported together, with VERY few exceptions. If something has a huge perf penalty like FSR4 on RDNA2, that caution should be said upfront and then left upon the user. Instead, AMD is trying too hard by determining what has value to who and when, and that's obviously just getting too messy; two different key spokespeople over a product aren't on the same page, so...Reply - psyconz Reply I get the impression with a lot of these large organisations, that the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing. It's definitely a matter of, between organisations, they might sue each other over one thing, meanwhile, at exactly the same time, be collaborating on things in other areas. It sure is an interesting world we live in. 🤣DS426 said:AMD needs to simplify their support policies: hardware that is in support and software that is in support are supported together, with VERY few exceptions. If something has a huge perf penalty like FSR4 on RDNA2, that caution should be said upfront and then left upon the user. Instead, AMD is trying too hard by determining what has value to who and when, and that's obviously just getting too messy; two different key spokespeople over a product aren't on the same page, so...
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