AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is now available and provides Radeon gamers with a new AI-optimized frame generation option for most games

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With the upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 and AMD Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards on the horizon, it’s easy to forget about the graphics software that will work with them, such as frame generation. Well, if we needed a reminder, the latest version of the AMD Adrenalin driver should help.

AMD has just announced the Adrenalin 24.9.1 update, which it says includes changes that can help “2.5x increase gaming performance.” This is primarily thanks to the introduction of the second generation of AMD Fluid Motion Frames, AFMF 2, which has just been officially released with the latest driver.

AFMF 2 was previously in beta, and the first generation of this technology has been with us since January. Last month, there was an incorrect hint on the AMD blog regarding the upcoming release of AFMF 2, which has now arrived.

AFMF is a driver-level frame generation technology that can be turned on and off in Adrenalin software, providing some FSR or DLSS benefits, but without any game-specific optimizations. This means that no game-specific implementations are required, but also no optimization of individual game performance and quality.

AMD says the second-generation FMF “adds new optimizations and tunable settings for better frame generation, including AI-optimized improvements for improved quality, lower latency, and better integrated graphics performance.” AFMF now also works with Radeon Chill, borderless fullscreen mode with 7000-series GPUs, and Vulkan and OpenGL games.

AMD’s charts show “an average of 2.5 times faster frame rates in selected games” using AFMF 2. This should not be overstated, however, as the results are from games running using HYPR-RX and FSR 2, not Just AFMF 2.

This will of course be a standard use case as AFMF is intended for those who want to generate frames when FSR 3 is not available, in which case you will likely be using other optimizations such as FSR 2 (which you don’t have Frame Gen) and HYPR-RX (which optimizes game settings for you).

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However, standard use case or not, we can’t attribute most of these “2.5x gains” to AFMF 2. In Nick’s tests – admittedly of an earlier version of the technology – he found that AFMF 2 offered a slight improvement in frame rates in compared to first-generation AFMF, among other non-FPS benefits such as latency and fast motion support.

In other words, don’t expect AFMF 2 to be a complete game changer. But it will definitely be nice to have this solution for games that don’t support FSR 3 – who will complain about slow frames? And considering most portable gaming PCs come with an AMD Radeon GPU, there should be a sizable market for them.

Radeon 7000 series owners can enable this by enabling the HYPR-RX profile in Adrenalin, and Radeon 6000 series owners can enable it in Graphics Options in Adrenalin.

While AFMF 2 is the main change in AMD’s latest driver, there are also additions such as geometric downscaling. AMD explains: “When videos are played in a window smaller than the native resolution, reducing the geometric size helps reduce visual artifacts and aliasing, ensuring smoother video quality.”

You can download AMD Adrenalin 24.9.1 here.