The AMD DGF SDK is fully open-source. The source code is self-contained and can be downloaded and built directly.

This release adds the following features:

• Added an animation-aware compression flow.
• Added a sample demonstrating real-time update of animated DGF blocks.
• Added Vulkan® support to all samples. Vulkan is used when the sample is run with -vulkan on the command line.
• Vulkan sample paths will use the VK_AMDX_dense_geometry_format extension where available.
• Added an option to generate DGF blocks for pre-clustered input.
• Various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Solving the Dense Geometry Problem

Discover how AMD's Dense Geometry Compression Format (DGF) revolutionizes graphics by compressing complex models for efficient real-time rendering, bridging the gap between rasterization and ray tracing.

Animating geometry with AMD DGF

The AMD DGF SDK has been updated with improvements and new features, including the addition of an animation-aware encoding pipeline.

Features

• Reference pipeline for geometry clustering and DGF compression.
• Reference code for CPU and GPU decompression of DGF data.
• Documentation of DGF block format.
• Sample command-line encoder and viewer application.

Benefits

Dense Geometry Compression Format (DGF) is a hardware-friendly geometry compression format which will be directly supported by future GPU Architectures. The DGF SDK provides a reference encoding pipeline and HLSL code for shader-based decompression, features permissive open-source licensing, and is available to all for evaluation and engine integration.

For more information please refer to our blog post or the technical paper, or watch the video below.

• The High-Performance Graphics (HPG) conference YouTube channel also hosts a video of the DGF presentation we made at HPG in July 2024.

Requirements

Footnotes and disclaimers

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Khronos and Vulkan are registered trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc.