On May 23rd, AMD unveiled the second generation of its game latency technology, Radeon Anti-Lag 2, which is an upgrade from the 2019 Anti-Lag and the 2023 Anti-Lag+.
Similar to NVIDIA Reflex, AMD's Anti-Lag technology aims to reduce the delay between a player's actions and the response in games, enhancing responsiveness and smoothness.
Anti-Lag 2 has been redesigned to be directly integrated into games, managing frame sequences and CPU resources within the game code, rather than relying on driver-level implementation as before, resulting in significant improvements.
The initial support for Anti-Lag 2 technology is available for "CS2" and is currently in the preview stage. To enable it, users need to use the 24.5.1 technology preview driver and can open the status monitor using the Alt+Shift+L shortcut, with various display options for frame rates and latency.
According to official sources, enabling Anti-Lag 2 on the RX 7000 series graphics cards and Ryzen 8000G series processors can reduce latency by an average of 37%. Compared to the first-generation driver-based solution, latency can be shortened by up to 95%.
For example, in "CS2" at ultra-high graphics settings, the latency for the RX 7700S at 1600p resolution is 31 milliseconds. Enabling the first-generation Anti-Lag can reduce it to 24 milliseconds, while Anti-Lag 2 can further decrease it to 19 milliseconds.
The latency for the Ryzen 7 8700G at 1080p resolution is 21 milliseconds, 18 milliseconds, and 16 milliseconds for three different scenarios.
AMD will also release the Anti-Lag 2 SDK development kit on GPUOpen.com for game developers to use, and more games will gradually join the ranks of supporting Anti-Lag 2.
