AMD is officially bringing AFMF (Fluid Motion Frames) 2 and Variable Graphics Memory features to Ryzen AI 300 APUs for a good FPS boost.
AMD VGM (Variable Graphics Memory) will allow you to run games with higher VRAM requirements on iGPUs, AFMF 2 (Fluid Motion Frames) for increased FPS
AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 APUs launched in July and have been slowly making their way into retail markets from various OEM partners. These new APUs are powered by the latest RDNA 3.5 architecture, which offers a nice performance boost over the RDNA 3 SKUs. Since their launch, the Ryzen AI 300 APUs have received 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, and a number of AI improvements.
Today, AMD is releasing a new Software: Adrenalin preview driver with support for Ryzen AI 300 APUs, and it comes as a technical preview package. With this new technical preview driver, Ryzen AI 300 APUs will be able to leverage two technologies, the first of which is AFMF 2 for Fluid Motion Frames 2.
This cutting-edge frame generation technology, designed to increase 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% more FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 when using AFMF 2 with an AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370. Along 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 in late July which is targeted at RDNA 2, RDNA 3, and RDNA 3.5 dGPUs and iGPUs. The feature is part of the HYPR-RX feature set that is now fully available on Ryzen AI 300 devices and users can now enable it via the gaming tab in the AMD Adrenalin app. Enabling Fluid Motion Frames 2 will also enable Anti-Lag, ensuring smooth and lag-free gameplay. The option to enable Radeon Super Resolution is also available for the Ryzen AI 300 crowd.
In one example, AMD shows Cyberpunk 2077 running at up to 100 FPS when 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 for the integrated graphics from the system memory. The memory will be in addition to the dedicated 512MB allocation that’s there by default and shouldn’t be confused with “Shared” graphics memory, which is a feature already available on modern AMD APUs with integrated graphics.
You can allocate the amount of memory via the Performance tab within the Adrenalin app, which gives you the option to select between Low, Medium, and High. If you have a Ryzen AI 300 PC with 32GB of system memory and set the variable graphics memory mode to “Medium,” it will allocate 8GB of memory to the iGPU. The High preset will allocate 16GB of memory, while the Low preset will allocate 4GB of memory.
With more 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 what’s more, they’ll be able to run games with higher VRAM requirements, such as Guardians of The Galaxy, which requires at least 3GB of VRAM to run and the 512MB frame buffer isn’t even enough to open the app. The higher VRAM is also useful for loading games faster and improving performance in VRAM-constrained scenarios.
So, overall, these are two exciting features for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Radeon 800M iGPUs that users can now try out for themselves, and since this is a technical preview, users can share their feedback with AMD to further optimize both features before the official launch. You can download the latest driver here.