Sony’s Collaboration With AMD Will Bring FSR 4-Based Features to PS5 Pro’s PSSR

PlayStation 5’s lead architect Mark Cerny has revealed that Sony’s collaboration with AMD will result in an adaptation of some FSR 4 features into PSSR. Speaking to Eurogamer, Cerny elaborated on the partnership between Sony and AMD, and how the latter’s recent strides in machine learning led to improvements in FSR 4 that could also be adapted for the PS5 Pro.

“Our focus for 2025 is working with developers to integrate PSSR into their titles; in parallel, though, we have already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro,” said Cerny, referring to the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution image upscaling technology used in the PS5 Pro.

According to Cerny, Sony plans to improve PSSR up to similar qualities as what we can see with AMD’s new FSR 4 upscaling technology. While it won’t exactly be the same technology in the console, Cerny believes that Sony can that it can be improved enough to where giving it the same inputs as FSR 4 would also produce similar results.

“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,” explained Cerny. “Doing that implementation is rather ambitious and time consuming, which is why you haven’t already seen this new upscaler on PS5 Pro.”

Cerny also explained that FSR 4 itself won’t be coming to the PS5 Pro. Rather, the collaboration between Sony and AMD will revolve around making use of similar machine learning technology to improve PSSR.

“That is what we are targeting, and we believe we can achieve it,” he continued. “The peak performance number for PS5 Pro is 300 8-bit TOPS without sparsity, which compares very well to the recently released AMD GPUs. We don’t believe sparsity is useful for this particular upscaling algorithm.”

For context, the latest iteration of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) makes use of machine learning technology in order to produce upscaled images that are a vast improvement over what we’ve seen in previous iterations of FSR. Specifically, FSR 4 was introduced alongside AMD’s new generation of graphics cards, and is available exclusively on the new GPUs rather than being backwards compatible like FSR traditionally has been.

AMD had recently revealed that its partnership with Sony, dubbed Project Amethyst, would revolve around FSR 4 in some way. While details weren’t revealed at the time, we have known for some time now that Sony had also helped AMD in developing FSR 4 by helping train its machine learning models.

If you’re looking for a way to try out AMD’s FSR 4 yourself, the only way to currently do so would be to use one of the company’s latest GPUs – the Radeon RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT. Both GPUs hit store shelves earlier this month, and are designed to compete directly with Nvidia’s latest mid-range offerings: the GeForce RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti respectively.

AMD will also be releasing lower-end GPUs in its new line-up later this year – the Radeon RX 9060 and RX 9060 XT.