First announced at Computex 2025, Redstone is billed as AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS 4. The company claims it will bring real-time path tracing, AI-powered super resolution and frame generation to games running on its RDNA 4 GPUs.

According to German site ComputerBase, which quizzed AMD during a roundtable at IFA 2025, the company insists Redstone will land in the second half of next year. The outfit said the update is designed to close the feature gap with Nvidia’s RTX cards by pushing motion clarity and image quality without tanking performance.

The pitch is that Redstone builds on FSR 4, which uses AI super resolution to improve visuals on Radeon RX 9000 GPUs. AMD wants developers to see it as a practical alternative to Nvidia’s proprietary tech, particularly for games dabbling in heavy ray tracing and path tracing.

Whether it will rival DLSS 4 in the real world is another matter. AMD has a habit of promising the moon when it comes to software features, only for adoption to crawl. If Redstone is to avoid the fate of earlier FSR updates, it will need broad developer support and consistent results across games, not just slideware demos.