{"id":78091,"date":"2026-05-14T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78091"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:36:50","slug":"the-ai-powered-tech-behind-pssr-2-is-coming-to-older-amd-gpus-including-the-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78091","title":{"rendered":"The AI-Powered Tech Behind PSSR 2 Is Coming To Older AMD GPUs, Including The Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of speculation, AMD has announced that it is bringing its latest generation of AI-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to its older generations of GPUs, starting with RDNA 3 cards as early as July.<\/p>\n<p>FSR 4.1 launched in March for AMD&#8217;s latest GPUs, namely the RX 9070 XT, 9070, and more. Older, but just as capable, RDNA 3 cards such as the RX 7900 XTX, have been stuck on FSR 3, with AMD repeatedly stating that newer hardware in its latest cards enabled the AI upscaling in a way previous architecture couldn&#8217;t. That is no longer the case, with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jackhuynh\/status\/2054904153013387273\">AMD&#8217;s Jack Huynh<\/a> stating that the company has done a lot of work to ensure the upscaling suite is optimized for the older hardware. Better still, he says AMD is also planning to release FSR 4.1 on even older RDNA 2 GPUs, such as the one found in the Steam Deck, in early 2027.<\/p>\n<p>This not only enhances older desktop GPUs during a time where the price of PC hardware has increased exponentially, but it also is good news for upcoming RDNA 3 devices, like Valve&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-release-date-price-everything-we-know\/1100-6536286\/\">Steam Machine<\/a>. When it was originally announced, Valve said that the living-room PC would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of speculation, AMD has announced that it is bringing its latest generation of AI-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to its older generations of GPUs, starting with RDNA 3 cards as early as July. FSR 4.1 launched in March for AMD&#8217;s latest GPUs, namely the RX 9070 XT, 9070, and more. Older,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":78093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78094,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78091\/revisions\/78094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}