Earlier this year, the multinational hardware designer and manufacturer NVIDIA introduced its RTX 5000 series of GeForce gaming graphics cards — also referred to as the RTX 50-series, and a follow-up to the RTX 40-series GPUs that launched in late 2022 and early 2023. On top of better raw rendering performance, these cards also support advanced features that elevate performance in other ways as well. Now, though, one such technology has become usable on older 40-series cards, too.
The feature in question is NVIDIA Smooth Motion, which — similar to AMD Fluid Motion Frames — uses artificial intelligence (AI) to inject an AI-generated frame between every pair of traditionally rendered frames. It can effectively double your in-game framerate without any noticeable quality downgrade in many cases, though on occasion, it might cause weird performance issues and visual oddities since it's still being refined.
