AMD Won't Force-Feed Redstone to RDNA 3 — But It Won't Shut the Door Either

AMD just gave RDNA 3 users a glimmer of hope — but not a guarantee.

AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture faces a technical tightrope: balancing hardware limitations with community demand for features like FSR Redstone. According to AMD’s Andrej Zdravkovic, the company’s reluctance to enable Redstone on older hardware stems from performance constraints.

"If you don’t have enough time to do… the machine learning operations required, then you have to reduce the frame rate… to double it."

FSR Redstone remains exclusive to RDNA 4 hardware for now, though AMD acknowledges community modding efforts. Zdravkovic praised these initiatives: “All the power to them,” he said, while emphasizing that official support will only arrive if hardware can guarantee consistent performance and quality.

Despite this openness, AMD won’t force Redstone onto RDNA 3 unless hardware compatibility is assured. Zdravkovic, a self-described “geek,” acknowledged the tension between official constraints and unofficial experimentation: “I’m a geek myself, so I would do that for any technology,” he added.

Current availability remains limited to RDNA 4, but the door isn’t entirely closed. Whether community efforts will influence future support depends on whether hardware limitations can be overcome without compromising performance.