AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 is out now and hands Radeon gamers a new AI-optimised frame generation option in most games

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

AMD's just announced Adrenalin 24.9.1, which claims to feature changes that can help «boost gaming performance by 2.5x». This is primarily thanks to the introduction second generation of AMD's Fluid Motion Frames, AFMF 2, which has now been officially released with this latest driver.

AFMF 2 was previously in beta, and the first generation of the tech has been with us since January. Last month we saw an AMD blog fail hint at an upcoming AFMF 2 release, which has now come to pass.

AFMF is a driver-level frame gen technology that you can toggle on or off in the Adrenalin software, giving you some of the benefit of FSR or DLSS but without any game-specific optimisations. This means no per-game implementations required, but also no per-game performance and quality enhancing optimisations.

The second generation of FMF, AMD says, «adds new optimizations and tunable settings for a better frame generation experience, including AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance on integrated graphics». AFMF now also works alongside Radeon Chill, borderless full screen mode with 7000-series GPUs, and Vulkan and OpenGL games.

AMD's charts  show «on average 2.5x higher frame rates in selected games» using AFMF 2. However, this shouldn't be overstated because the results are from games run using HYPR-RX and FSR 2, not just AFMF 2. 

This, of course, will be a standard use case, because AFMF is for those looking to generate frames when FSR 3 isn't available, in which case it's likely you'll be using other optimisations such as FSR 2 (which doesn't have frame gen) and HYPR-RX (which optimises game settings for you).

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