AMD’s Big Update to AFMF 2 Could Improve Frame Rates in Thousands of Games

AMD conscionable announced an update to its escaped Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) software. Currently, successful preview mode, AFMF 2 is an in-driver framework procreation technology. Think of Nvidia’s DLSS oregon AMD’s FSR 3 technologies, but the bundle supra needs in-game enactment portion AFMF is enabled via AMD GPU drivers. AFMF 2 tin perchance amended framework rates for thousands of PC games and is compatible with the company’s RX 6000 and RX 7000 GPUs.

AFMF takes a mates of frames that person been rendered successful sequence. From there, an algorithm runs to interpolate the imaginable country halfway betwixt the changes successful the frames. Finally, it plugs successful the result, expanding your framework rate. While AFMF is innovative, it’s not arsenic precise arsenic AMD’s FSR 3 tech, but the betterment it brings to truthful galore titles is thing to constitute off.

AMD’s update includes respective tweaks designed to amended performance. The biggest alteration focuses connected reducing latency for framework generation, with AMD claiming that AFMF 2 tin trim latency by up to 28%. This is important arsenic the little latency translates into smoother show overall.

But 2024 wouldn’t beryllium 2024 without immoderate notation of AI. As it pertains to AFMF 2, the bundle has 2 AI-based improvements. ‘Search Mode controls however “fallback” works successful AFMF 2. “Fallback is erstwhile AFMF framework procreation is temporarily disabled successful high-motion scenes to guarantee the best-interpolated representation quality, which tin sometimes origin jitter that impacts the smoothness of the gaming experience.”

Using an AI-optimized algorithm, Search Mode fundamentally controls however overmuch fallback occurs astatine 1440p and 4K to amended smoothness.

The 2nd diagnostic is ‘Performance Mode.’ Instead of the default Quality default of AFMF 1, you present person Auto and Performance settings. Performance Mode facilitates overhead simplification successful integrated Radeon graphic chips erstwhile enabled, ensuring higher framework rates connected immoderate of AMD’s weaker GPUs.

Other updates see enactment for borderless fullscreen connected Radeon RX 7000 and Radeon 700M bid cards, and the bundle is present compatible with Vulcan and Open GL. AFMF besides works with AMD Radeon Chill, which lets you acceptable a driver-controlled FPS cap.