AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames 2 (FMF2) is the company’s allegedly AI-powered frame generation tech that’s meant to compete with Nvidia’s latest version of DLSS. It was first released to users back in July, but that was in a beta version of the Adrenalin software package.
Today, it’s ready for prime time. AMD’s Adrenalin version 24.9.1 is the software’s first stable release to include FMF2.
According to AMD’s promotional materials, Fluid Motion Frames 2 is “AI-optimized for improved quality and smoothness,” using lower frame generation latency with lower overhead on integrated graphics. It also works on borderless full-screen mode (big for gamers who run multiple background apps) and on games that use Vulkan and OpenGL graphics.
FMF2 is compatible with AMD’s RX 6000 and RX 7000 series GPUs on both desktops and laptops as well as integrated AMD graphics systems with RDNA 3 guts (including the latest Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 laptops).
AMD estimates that combining FMF2 with its Hyper-RX suite of tools can give you double, even triple the frame rate for a game compared to its base, non-upscaled state. That’s assuming some pretty high-powered hardware, up to the RX 7900 XTX card, according to the fine print.
Other updates in Adrenalin 24.9.1 include “geometric downscaling” (which helps reduce artifacts when windows for video and games are downscaled) and HYPR-Tune support for recent games like Black Myth Wukong, God of War Ragnarök, Space Marine II, and Frostpunk 2. You can download the driver suite here.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
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