This release adds the following features:

• Version 6.3.1 adds Visual Studio® 2026 binaries.
• Version 6.3 includes AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture detection and more robust driver version and GPU specifications detection.
• Version 6.2 has the addition of shader clock intrinsics to the API.
• Version 6.1.0 adds support for detecting the new AMD RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, adds versions of the static libraries that are built with the Visual Studio 2022 toolset (v143) to help with integration into games or apps that build using the same tooling, and comes with a new simple sample that shows you how to use AGS extensions from DX12.
• It also includes the new features introduced with version 6.0:
  • A ray tracing hit token that can be used to optimize some ray tracing scenarios on RDNA 2 hardware.
  • Additional shader intrinsics, namely ReadLaneAt and float conversions.
  • Detection for AMD RDNA 2 architecture hardware. It’s worth understanding that this should not be relied upon for detecting feature support like ray tracing or VRS. It’s important to use the rendering API, e.g. DirectX 12, to determine feature support as many features are a function of the hardware, OS and driver support.
  • Detection of external GPUs.

Benefits

• Full GPU enumeration with adapter string, device id, revision id, vendor id, and ASIC family.
• GPU core and memory clock speeds.
• GPU local and shared memory.
• App registration extension for DirectX 11 and 12.
• Wave reduce and wave scan intrinsics.
• User debug markers in DirectX 11 and 12.
• Pre-built static libraries with popular CRT build settings.
• Per-GPU display enumeration including information on display name, resolution, and HDR and AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro capabilities.
• Optional user-supplied memory allocator.
• Function to set displays into HDR mode.

For DirectX 11 only:

• DirectX 11 shader compiler controls.
• DirectX 11 multiview extension.
• DirectX 11 Crossfire API updates.
  • Now supports using the API without needing a driver profile.
  • You can also now specify the transfer engine.

Driver Extensions

AGS exposes shader extensions for both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12. It also provides access to additional extensions available in the AMD driver for DirectX 11:

• Quad List primitive type.
• UAV overlap.
• Depth bounds test.
• Multi-draw indirect.
• Multiview.

Requirements

• AMD Radeon™ GCN-based or AMD RDNA architecture-based GPU (HD 7000 series or newer)
• 64-bit Windows® 7 (SP1 with the Platform Update), Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11
• Visual Studio 2017 or newer (including Visual Studio 2026)