At GDC 2026, AMD announced the next-generation FSR Diamond, which is designed to deliver machine learning (ML) upscaling, multi-frame generation, ray regeneration, and neural rendering. It was co-engineered with Xbox and will be natively integrated into the Xbox “Project Helix” console.
The FSR Diamond is essentially the next-gen successor to the current FSR Redstone, which is supported on Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. In this article, I’ll explain everything you need to know about it, including its key features, compatibility, and more.
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FSR Diamond explained: Everything you need to know
AMD’s FSR Diamond was announced by Jack Huynh, the company’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Group, on X.
FSR Diamond represents AMD’s push into next-gen graphics and rendering technologies, designed to power upcoming games that are expected to heavily adopt ray tracing and path tracing.
During the Project Amethyst announcement, AMD revealed that the next-generation PlayStation console hardware will include Radiance Cores for ray tracing, Neural Arrays (or Neural Cores) for machine learning (ML) tasks, and Universal Compression to reduce bandwidth consumption.
Since the upcoming PlayStation and Xbox consoles will share the same next-gen AMD GPU architecture, Xbox will also benefit from these technologies.
Both next-generation consoles will be powered by FSR Diamond, which will leverage their hardware-based machine learning (ML) capabilities to deliver ML-based upscaling, multi-frame generation, ray regeneration, and neural rendering. However, PlayStation’s version of FSR will be called PSSR, short for PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution.
Key features
Here are the key features of FSR Diamond:
- Next-gen ML-based Upscaler
- New ML-based Multi-Frame Generation
- Next-gen Ray Regeneration
- Next-gen Neural Rendering
Compatibility
As of right now, AMD only mentions support for the next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles codenamed Project Helix and Project Amethyst, respectively.
Officially, the company has not mentioned any support for FSR Diamond on current or next-gen Radeon GPUs. Since FSR 4 (later renamed FSR Redstone) is supported only on the current Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, older Radeon RX 7000 and RX 6000 series GPUs are left out.
Many users may wonder whether AMD will follow the same approach with the upcoming FSR Diamond by keeping it exclusive to RDNA 5 (or whatever the next-generation Radeon GPU architecture is ultimately called). A recent leak indicates that this will indeed be the case.
A reputable leaker, known as @Kepler_L2 on X, says FSR Diamond will be exclusive to RDNA5. According to them, RDNA 5 exclusivity is due to the AI/ML-accelerated features of the new architecture:
“They need to use new AI/ML accel features of RDNA5 to achieve a meaningful improvement in performance and quality, and that makes porting to older architectures hard.”
Keep in mind that this information is not official, so take it with a large grain of salt.
Release window
Next-gen consoles are expected to be released in 2027. AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company’s AMD Q4 2025 earnings report that the development of next-gen Xbox consoles featuring an AMD semi-custom SoC is progressing well for a 2027 launch:
“From a product standpoint, Valve is on track to begin shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year, and development of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox featuring an AMD semi-custom SoC is progressing well to support a launch in 2027.”
Since FSR Diamond will be included in the upcoming Xbox console, AMD is expected to release it alongside the next-generation Xbox and PlayStation in 2027, unless their launch is delayed beyond that year.
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Edited by Rachel Syiemlieh
