AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 available for download as technical preview for Ryzen AI 300 laptops

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2, or AFMF2 for short, is the competing technology to Nvidia’s Frame Generation and inserts AI-generated intermediate frames into games in order to achieve significant FPS increases. AMD has now made a preview driver available for download that enables AFMF2 and “Variable Graphics Memory” (VGM) for laptop processors in the Ryzen AI 300 series with 800M iGPUs.

The preview driver has the version numbers 24.20.11.01 (Windows 10) or 32.0.12011.1010 (Windows 11) and can be downloaded from the AMD website. In addition to activating AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 for Ryzen AI 300 CPUs, the latencies and performance of the intermediate image generation are said to have been generally improved and the API support should be usable for all OpenGL and Vulkan games in addition to DirectX 11 and 12.

After installing the preview driver, AFMF2 can be activated in the Adrenalin Edition software via the “Graphics” sub-item of the “Gaming” tab in the application. Since frame generation always involves a certain amount of latency, AMD Radeon Anti Lag is also automatically activated. In addition, “Variable Graphics Memory” (VGM) for AMD mobile processors of the Ryzen AI 300 series can also be activated with the current preview driver (under “Performance” -> “Tuning”).

The new Variable Graphics Memory feature allows up to 75% of the system RAM to be allocated as graphics memory. While 512 MB is normally allocated to the integrated graphics units, VGM in the “Medium” setting on a notebook with 32 GB RAM, for example, would allocate 8 GB as VRAM for a Radeon 890M iGPU. However, this requires a reboot of the laptop.

To demonstrate the performance improvement provided by AFMF 2 and VGM on laptops with Ryzen AI 300 processors, AMD ran its own benchmarks on an Asus Zenbook S 16 running Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (Build 26100.1301) with several games at a resolution of 2,800 × 1,800 pixels. The laptop has a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, a 16-inch OLED display, 32 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD.

For example, the games tested by AMD – Far Cry 6, Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition, F1 23 and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – achieve frame rates of over 60 FPS at medium settings and the “Balanced” preset of the AMD Upscaler FSR. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was previously unplayable without “Variable Graphics Memory”. As always, you should be cautious with the manufacturer’s own benchmarks and also wait for independent tests (buy the Asus Zenbook S 16 OLED on Amazon here).