AMD's frame generation tech makes its debut today.

AMD has officially launched AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) today, complete with their own go at frame generation. FSR 3 is so far only available in two games: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. However, there are plans to include support for FSR 3 in dozens of upcoming titles.

AMD announced FSR 3 a fair number of months back and then remained near totally silent about it ever since. Then they kind of surprised launched it today in the two aforementioned titles. FSR 3 is AMD's attempt to replicate what Nvidia does with DLSS 3 frame generation. Except AMD's solution is called AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF). The frame generation part of FSR 3 is limited to Radeon RX 5000 Series and above for AMD and GeForce RTX 20 Series and above for Nvidia.

This frame generation tech is just a part of FSR 3. Like FSR and FSR 2 before it, FSR 3 also incorporates temporal upscaling technology. This upscaling has reportedly been better optimized, at least with frame generation in mind, but it's a bit too early yet to say whether or not the image quality is noticeably better than FSR 2.2. If you are using FSR 3's upscaling part only, you can run it on AMD Radeon RX 590 and above or Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 Series and above.

With the use off AFMF, AMD claims that you will see "massive performance" increases in supported games.


Of course, you will want to wait until independent third-parties do some deep dives into the technology. It's almost a guarantee that Digital Foundry will take a look at this. I'm sure other outlets will do the same in the days ahead.

In addition to today's launch in Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, AMD announced that FSR 3 will be included in a number of other titles. Some of those include Cyberpunk 2077, EVE Online, Starship Troopers Extermination, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and more. Furthermore, several studios also voiced support for FSR 3 including Ascendant Studios, Square Enix, Focus Entertainment, Pearl Abyss, and more. Epic Games is also working with AMD to develop an FSR 3 plug-in for Unreal Engine 5.


As I am on a GTX 1080 Ti still, I cannot test how well FSR 3's AFMF works, nor can I comment on image quality. However, some on the AMD subreddit have tested FSR 3 and the initial impressions by those that have tested this with Forspoken have been extremely positive.