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As AMD rolls out a new driver for FSR Redstone — a collection of machine learning technologies to improve frame rates and ray tracing performance on PC — Microsoft president of game content and studios Matt Booty shared that part of Microsoft's ongoing collaboration with AMD includes co-developing Ray Regeneration.
In a video update on Wednesday, Booty showed up to talk about Microsoft's role in the partnership, noting that the recently-launched Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the first game to use Ray Regeneration, and also now supports FSR Frame Generation for any players using AMD's 9000-series graphics cards.
"We've been working very closely with AMD to co-develop FSR Ray Regeneration to achieve a material improvement in real-time ray tracing," Booty says.
"Our work on FSR Redstone is just one example of what this partnership is unlocking today, and our teams can't wait to share more of what our collaboration with AMD will unlock in the future across games and our next-generation hardware."
AMD and Microsoft have a partnership for the next Xbox console hardware
Earlier in 2025, Xbox president Sarah Bond announced that AMD and Microsoft have a multi-year partnership to develop the next Xbox console hardware. There's still quite a bit that isn't known, but Bond has stated that future Xbox hardware will support the existing library of games Xbox Series X|S players are enjoying today.
It's also quite interesting to see that Microsoft worked with AMD on Ray Regeneration. Ray tracing can be used to make games even more graphically impressive and can even help developers save time in certain scenarios.
That said, it can be extremely difficult for some hardware to run, so any improvements to performance that can aid ray tracing without sacrificing overall image quality are well worth keeping an eye on.
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