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Ex-AMD FSR Lead’s ‘Big Trouble’ Meme Revives Questions About FSR 4 on Older Radeons

A former project lead’s cryptic reply throws a spotlight on AMD’s silence over INT8 support for older PC GPUs.

Overview

  • Colin Riley, who helped lead early FSR 4 work at AMD, replied with a “I prefer not to speak” meme when asked why the INT8 build is not released for RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 cards.
  • AMD still limits official FSR 4 support on PC to RDNA 4 GPUs that run the upscaler in the FP8 format.
  • The INT8 variant exists and is officially supported on Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro, which aligns with AMD’s statement that FSR 4.1 shares a neural foundation with the console’s upgraded scaler.
  • AMD accidentally posted INT8 FSR 4 code on its GPUOpen GitHub earlier in the rollout, and community tools like Optiscaler now load FSR 4 on older GPUs without AMD’s validation.
  • Wccftech reports Riley also said many GPUOpen and FidelityFX team members have left AMD for Nvidia or Intel, offering one possible reason the rollout has struggled.