Sony’s partnership with AMD will FSR 4 implementation in PS5 Pro next year

PlayStation is currently continuing its work on artificial intelligence (AI) upscaling with AMD as part of ‘Project Amethyst’. The announcement was made last year in December and now the lead system architect for PlayStation, ‘Mark Cerny,’ has provided more details about this project and what they aim to achieve with this technology.

AMD recently released the new RX 9070 GPUs with RDNA 4 architecture and one of the key highlights was FSR 4, which saw a lot of improvement. As told by Cerny during an interview with Digital Foundry, this was the first result of Project Amethyst collaboration between the two companies.

“The neural network (and training recipe) in FSR 4's upscaler are the first results of the Amethyst collaboration. And results are excellent; it's a more advanced approach that can exceed the crispness of PSSR. I’m very proud of the work of the joint team!” he said.

PS5 Pro to have similar upscaler integration by 2026

The PS5 Pro console also uses its own upscaling technology called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR). This allows gamers to have 4K quality from a much smaller resolution, allowing the system to run the games at 60 fps without sacrificing quality. With FSR 4, the aim is to improve the image quality even higher, but things will take time.

“Our target is to have something very similar to FSR 4's upscaler available on PS5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PSSR; it should take the same inputs and produce essentially the same outputs. Doing that implementation is rather ambitious and time-consuming, which is why you haven't already seen this new upscaler on PS5 Pro,” he further added.

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Why is FSR 4 integration taking time for PS5 Pro?

The PlayStation 5 Pro and AMD’s RDNA 4 are different. One utilized budget hardware to bring the cost down to $700 and provide 4K gaming. On the other hand, the RX 9070 XT GPU, which promises 4K gaming alone, costs almost a similar price. As such, the implementation will take time. It won’t be FSR 4, but something similar in terms of quality, which uses its own algorithm.