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FSR 4.1 initially relied on RDNA 4's AI acceleration units to run its ML models, and bringing it down to RDNA 2 means AMD must switch to an inference path or hybrid approach with lower compute requirements.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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10/20/2026
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Valid until: 1/18/2027
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