PlayStation 5 Pro designer Mark Cerny says we’ll have to wait a little longer for the next-generation scaler to make an impact on the half-generation console.

AMD FSR 4 is being developed with Sony as part of Project Amethyst (a machine learning-focused project). This year, Sony plans to help developers implement the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaler, but will later focus on using AMD FSR 4 (or at least a version of it for consoles). Cerny said in an interview with Digital Foundry that he is confident that the performance of the PlayStation 5 Pro 300 8-bit TOPS will make this possible. He says there will be some fine-tuning because the technical goals for console and PC games are different (for example, 60 FPS is the benchmark on consoles, but it’s higher on PC).

“Our goal is to have something very similar to the FSR 4 upscaler available on PlayStation 5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR); it should take the same inputs and produce essentially the same outputs. The implementation is quite ambitious and time-consuming, which is why you haven’t seen this new upscaler on the PlayStation 5 Pro yet. RDNA 4 and the hardware in the PS5 Pro are completely separate designs, which is why I’m talking about a “reimplementation” on the PlayStation 5 Pro when I talk about the new upscaling network used in AMD FSR 4. I’m definitely looking forward to a future of co-developed hardware features for machine learning that will dramatically increase interoperability.

The short-term goal is to jointly develop neural network architectures and training strategies for game graphics. The longer-term goal is to work together to create a more ideal hardware architecture for machine learning, something that can process the neural networks needed for game graphics at high speed. The PlayStation 5 Pro has been a wonderful learning experience for us here at Sony Interactive Entertainment, and of course AMD has an incredible amount of knowledge from its multi-generation RDNA roadmap. Again, it just made sense to combine that expertise. AMD FSR 4 and this next evolution of PSSR is a paradigm for our future. In the future, we expect to have our own implementations of each of the algorithms developed through the collaboration,” Cerny said.

So Sony’s console will get the upscaler, but be patient!

Source: WCCFTech