AMD AFMF 2 & Variable Graphics Memory Now Available With Ryzen AI 300 APUs, Boost FPS By 78%
AMD AFMF 2 & Variable Graphics Memory Now Available With Ryzen AI 300 APUs, Boost FPS By 78%

AMD is officially bringing AFMF (Fluid Motion Frames) 2 & Variable Graphics Memory features to Ryzen AI 300 APUs for a nice boost in FPS.
AMD's Ryzen AI 300 APUs launched in July and have slowly been entering the retail markets from various OEM partners. These new APUs are equipped with the latest RDNA 3.5 architecture which offers a good uplift in performance over the RDNA 3 SKUs. Since its launch, the Ryzen AI 300 APUs got two driver releases, the 24.7.1 which is also considered the launch driver, and the most recent one, the 24.8.1, which introduced new game support, Anti-Lag 2 and HYPR-Tune & a range of AI enhancements.
Today, AMD is releasing a new Software: Adrenalin preview driver with support for Ryzen AI 300 APUs, and that comes as a technical preview package. With this new technical preview driver, the Ryzen AI 300 APUs will be able to leverage two technologies, the first of which is AFMF 2 of Fluid Motion Frames 2.
This cutting-edge frame generation technology, designed to boost frame rates and enhance gameplay, is now available for gamers to instantly improve performance for gamers using AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 series processors. Gamers can expect up to 78% higher FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 when using AFMF 2 with an AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370. In conjunction with AFMF 2, Variable Graphics Memory (VGM) will also be supported, allowing you to maximize performance on AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors.
AMD introduced Fluid Motion Frames 2 at the end of July which is geared at RDNA 2, RDNA 3, and RDNA 3.5 dGPUs and iGPUs. The feature is part of the HYPR-RX feature suite which is now entirely available on Ryzen AI 300 devices and users can now enable it through the gaming tab in the AMD Adrenalin application. Turning on Fluid Motion Frames 2 will also enable Anti-Lag, ensuring lag-free and smooth gameplay. The option to enable Radeon Super Resolution is also available to the Ryzen AI 300 audiences.
In one example, AMD shows Cyberpunk 2077 running at up to 100 FPS by enabling AFMF 2 (Fluid Motion Frames 2) at 1080p and using a Balanced FSR preset. That's a 78% FPS gain compared to non-AFMF 2.
The other big feature coming to AMD Ryzen AI 300 APUs is support for VGM or Variable Graphics Memory. This feature allows users to allocate a dedicated pool of memory to the integrated graphics from the system memory. The memory will be in addition to the 512 MB dedicated allocation that is there by default and should not be confused with "Shared" graphics memory which is a feature already available on modern-day AMD APUs with integrated graphics.
You can allocate the amount of memory through the Performance tab within the Adrenalin app which gives you the option to select from Low, Medium, and High. If you have a Ryzen AI 300 PC with 32 GB of system memory and set the variable graphics memory mode to "Medium", it will allocate 8 GB of memory to the iGPU. The high preset will allocate 16 GB of memory while the Low preset will allocate 4 GB of memory.
With higher memory allocated to the integrated GPU, AMD's Ryzen AI 300 PCs with RDNA 3.5 iGPUs can see a nice boost in performance, and more so, they will be able to run games with higher VRAM requirements such as Guardians of The Galaxy which requires at least 3 GB VRAM to run & the 512 MB frame buffer is just not enough to even open the application. The higher VRAM is also useful for loading games faster and improving performance in VRAM-constrained scenarios.
So overall, these are two interesting features for AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Radeon 800M iGPUs which users can now try out for themselves and since it is a technical preview, users can share their feedback with AMD to further optimize both features before an official release. You can download the latest driver here.
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