- AMD would have prepared AFMF 2.1 for the launch alongside its new GPUs DNR 4
- This is a frame generation software at the driver’s level, implemented on the current DNA 2 and 3 GPUs with Ryzen AI 300 APUS
- It comes in the middle of the controversial launch of the NVIDIA RTX 5000 series
The AMD can be in great listening position to fight with NVIDIA in the GPU department with its GPUs of the Radeon RX 9000 series, since its launch of the RTX 5000 series of its ferocious rivals has not been the most fluid – now, Team Red could introduce an improvement to its weft generation software which could benefit both its current GPUs and new RDNA 4.
According to Videocardz, AMD is currently developing AFMF 2.1 (AMD Fluid Motion Cames) to be launched alongside its next RDNA 4 GPUs at the start of March – this is a pilot generation function at the driver level, which allows players to use it for an increase in performance in games that do not have an official FSR 3 support.
Videocardz suggests that AFMF 2.1 will not require any AI hearts, which means that it will take care of all the same material as AFMF 2.0 could. This represents excellent news for current users of GPU GPU 2 and 3, and portable games that use one of the new APUs in the Ryzen AI 300 series – it could still improve the quality of the executives generated, which is essential at the limit for a portable PC game experience.
All signs indicate that FSR 4 is exclusive to DNA 4 (at least for the moment). Although AFMF 2.1 will probably not surpass the new FSR 4 frame generation model with the official implementation in games, this could end up being an excellent compromise for users on older equipment.
What does this mean for portable game PCs and new GPUs of DNA 4?
The new portable game PCs are on the horizon, and they will need every help they can get as games become more and more greedy in equipment. Although new APU can considerably improve game performance (as we have seen with the MSI Claw 8 AI +), driver level software like this will also help older pocket computers.
Nvidia recently joined the game with its gentle movement function (also the generation of a frame at the driver’s level), but Team Green does no portable apus (at least from what we know), and the AFMF 2.1 of Team Red could be more polite to correspond to a smooth movement. The AFMF 1 and 2 were good for most portable games, but ghosts, stuttering and entry latency have always been annoying, which I hope that AFMF 2.1 will be addressed.
In this spirit, AMD resembles the black horse of this GPU generation, especially if the problems with the offer and the ROP missing for the Blackwell GPU of Nvidia are not quickly resolved – if the recent reference leaks of the Radeon RX 9070 XT are legitimate, then everything that must do AMD must make its lower price or around Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti to mark an easy victory.
It usually takes a while for the official support of the FSR frame generation to be added in AAA games (an excellent example was Cyberpunk 2077) Thus, if the AFMF 2.1 is a significant improvement, it could attract players until developers can act on the implementation of the appropriate frame generation.
We are about to obtain all the details on the GPUs of DNA 4 on February 28, and I hope that Team Red will be released, because there is no better time than now for rigid competition against Nvidia.
