{"id":876218,"date":"2026-10-09T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876218\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:06:11","slug":"amd-will-bring-fsr-4-to-handhelds-by-the-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876218\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD will bring FSR 4 to handhelds by the end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">It\u2019s already possible to get AMD\u2019s framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck \u2014 but in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/pc-gaming\/944726\/amd-just-reserved-the-right-to-disappoint-handheld-and-steam-machine-gamers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AMD reserved the right to disappoint handheld gamers<\/a> by not officially bringing FSR 4 to older handhelds. Now, AMD consumer chip boss Jack Huynh says he will bring the tech to some handhelds by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Which handhelds? It\u2019s still not clear if it will come to existing handhelds, or if you\u2019ll need a new one to get it \u2014 because it comes alongside news that AMD is releasing a new FSR4-capable chip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">\u201cWe will expand the machine learning AI-based FSR4 technology, which was first introduced to existing external graphics cards, to the entire product line including APUs, gaming laptops, and handheld devices by the end of this year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelec.kr\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=63427\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huynh told Korean publication The Elec<\/a> (via Google Translate). \u201cWe plan to respond in two directions: launching existing APUs and new product lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Back when AMD threw a little cold water on the idea of FSR 4 for existing handhelds, exec David McAfee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsgauide.com\/gaming\/handheld-gaming\/i-did-not-say-its-coming-we-spoke-to-amd-vp-david-mcafee-about-bringing-fsr-4-to-ryzen-handhelds-to-catch-up-to-intel-arc-g3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told Tom\u2019s Guide<\/a> that \u201cwe want to make sure the experience and the quality is right\u201d and that AMD would need \u201ca sufficient amount of compute within that product\u201d for FSR 4 to make sense. Perhaps some older laptop chips will qualify, while some older handheld chips don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">AMD didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request to clarify Huynh\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s already possible to get AMD\u2019s framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6143,559,3,1300,172,74],"class_list":["post-876218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amd","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-pc-gaming","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}