“The subsequent evolution of PSSR” PS5 Professional to get FSR 4-like upscaling, says PS5 designer Mark Cerny

Shortly after the launch of AMD’s newest RDNA 4-based GPUs, the pink crew revealed that the brand new ML-based upscaling expertise discovered within the RX 9070 XT and 9070 was developed in collaboration with Sony. This marks the primary results of AMD and Sony’s Venture Amethyst collaboration, which was introduced final 12 months and focuses on utilizing AI to enhance the PC and console gaming expertise.

And simply as we anticipated to see the outcomes of this collaboration within the type of an improved PlayStation Tremendous Spectral Decision (PSSR), PlayStation lead system architect Mark Cerny, in an interview with Digital Foundry, said that “our goal is to have one thing similar to FSR 4’s upscaler out there on PS5 Professional as the following evolution of PSSR.” Cerny added, “The neural community (and coaching recipe) in FSR 4’s upscaler are the primary outcomes of the Amethyst collaboration.”

PS5 Professional’s ML {hardware} will run a “tweaked” FSR 4

Regardless of the uncooked {hardware} specs of the brand new RX 9070 collection GPUs being significantly greater than these of the PS5 Professional, Cerny believes that the PS5 Professional’s ML {hardware} is as much as the duty of working FSR 4 with out vital re-architecting. In reality, he mentions that the PlayStation 5 Professional’s AI efficiency is predicted to be just like that of the RX 9070 collection. That mentioned, FSR 4 will nonetheless require some console-specific tweaks, akin to changes for particular body charges, which aren’t all the time a priority on PCs.

One other problem in implementing FSR 4 on the PS5 Professional is that the console would not assist sparsity—a way used to enhance AI effectivity by ignoring redundant knowledge. Nevertheless, in accordance with Cerny, “We don’t consider sparsity is beneficial for this explicit upscaling algorithm.”

“RDNA 4 and the {hardware} in PS5 Professional are utterly separate designs, which is why I converse by way of ‘reimplementation’ on PS5 Professional once I discuss in regards to the new upscaling community utilized in FSR 4”

Mark Cerny, Sony PlayStation Lead Architect (supply DF by way of Eurogamer)

FSR4-like upscaling on PS5 Professional coming in 2026

Nevertheless, it should take a while earlier than this FSR 4-like model of PSSR makes its technique to PlayStation 5 Professional consoles. For now, the corporate is concentrated on working with builders to increase PSSR assist throughout extra titles, although they’ve already begun implementing the brand new neural community on the PS5 Professional. In accordance with Cerny, the following evolution of PSSR and Sony’s aim of delivering one thing similar to FSR 4’s upscaler will likely be out there on the PS5 Professional for 2026 titles.