AMD's Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) technology has been part of a regularly updated preview driver since late September, and the Red Team has since added support for various RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs. And included in this week's announcement of the Radeon RX 7600 XT at CES 2024 was the announcement that AFMF will be part of the release driver for this new mid-range graphics card.

AMD Fluid Motion Frames are part of the Red Team's answer to Nvidia's DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, but do not require GeForce hardware or even game integration to make it happen.

AMD has a game-specific frame generation feature that is currently only available in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum and will be included in a future set of games, but AFMF is driver-based and will work with any DirectX 11 or 12 game It should.

However, it has remained in the preview phase for the past few months with no details on when it will be included in the main driver stack. However, at the end of the AMD CES 2024 presentation, it was announced that "AMD HYPR-RX with AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) available with AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT launch driver ( AFMF) with AMD HYPR-RX available with AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT launch driver)," indicating that it will be released on January 24.

This is good news for gamers using lower spec hardware, and gives players the opportunity to smooth out their gaming experience with far more titles than their green competitors.

That is why AMD believes that Nvidia may have to follow suit once and for all; AMD's Aaron Steinman told Jacob that if Nvidia wants to keep pace in the upscaling race, it "will have to do something similar will have to do something similar" if Nvidia wants to keep pace in the upscaling race.

However, frame generation, whether driver-based or game-specific trim, is no panacea for frame rates. That said, with the recent update to the preview driver to support the 700M series iGPUs, I ran Baldur's Gate 3 on my Framework 13 laptop with great success.

This is the same 780M graphics silicon found in most gaming handhelds and next-gen Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs, and FSR 2 Balanced performance was around 30fps at high settings, but with AFMF enabled I found it to be quite stable to ~60fps. Looks and feels very nice.

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