AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2) Exits Preview Phase, Now Available On Latest Drivers

Low Boon Shen
By Low Boon Shen 2 Min Read

After months of previews, AMD’s AFMF 2 driver-level frame generation technology exits beta phase and is officially part of the standard Adrenalin driver package (version 24.9.1, despite it being released in October). AFMF 2 is short for AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2, a second-generation upgrade from the original implementation released a year ago.

AFMF 2: What’s New?

AFMF 2 has brought in several improvements, including performance – latency is reduced by 28%, and less driver overhead means weaker GPUs (like integrated graphics found in Ryzen laptops) has more resources to work with. Under the hood, the new iteration leverages AI optimizations “for improved quality and smoothness,” and it can now work in a wider range of settings and conditions.

On average, AMD is claiming that AFMF 2, coupled with FSR 2 (as part of the HYPR-RX suite) will enable up an average of 2.5x increase in framerates over native resolution. HYPR-RX now includes several performance boosting technologies which can be enable instantly in the AMD Software, such as AFMF 2, Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) or FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), Radeon Boost, and Radeon Anti-Lag. You’ll need any Radeon RX 6000 series GPU, Ryzen 7000 series CPUs with onboard Radeon graphics, Ryzen Z1 series or newer to enable this.

Besides that, AMD has also introduced a small bonus upgrade for RDNA 3 GPUs with the latest driver package: video playbacks can now use a new feature called Geometric Downscaling to reduce jagged edges when playing a video with resolutions higher than the display resolution. This visual artifact is especially pronounced when viewing near-level lines, where streaks of lines runs through them during motion, which the new feature is designed to eliminate.

Pokdepinion: Now that’s something NVIDIA don’t have an answer for, but I don’t think they would worry too much given their strong DLSS ecosystem.

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