Developing DirectX® applications
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Tools to support you with DirectX®12 development
Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer
Investigate the performance of your raytracing applications.
Shine some light on those potential bottlenecks.
Radeon™ Memory Visualizer
Appreciate your allocations. Obliterate that oversubscription. And make good those memory leaks.
Show your video memory some love.
Radeon™ GPU Profiler
Analyze. Adjust. Accelerate.
Optimize your game’s renderer today, with our flagship graphics profiler.
Discover the D3D12 Memory Allocator (D3D12MA) library
Our battle-tested, open source memory allocation libraries for DirectX®12 make allocating memory a doddle.
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Our latest DirectX®12 news
Using Neural Networks for Geometric Representation
Explore how Neural Intersection Functions (NIF) and the enhanced LSNIF are poised to reshape ray tracing by replacing traditional BVH traversal with efficient, GPU-friendly neural networks...
Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.
CPU performance optimization guide - part 4
Optimize CPU performance by manually writing x64 assembly code, offering a detailed comparison with compiler-generated instructions and achieving improved performance through streamlined...
CPU performance optimization guide - part 3
We look at optimizing CPU performance by reducing the number of instructions, and highlights methods to enhance instruction efficiency and algorithm throughput.
CPU performance optimization guide - part 2
Part 2 of the CPU performance optimization guide explores cache invalidation issues, benchmarking, and prefetch optimization strategies for improved memory performance.
Work Graph Playground a learning framework for GPU Work Graphs
Read about our latest sample for D3D12 GPU Work Graphs. We're making Work Graphs more accessible with a tutorial framework.
Meshlet compression
We show how to diminish the memory footprint of meshlet geometry, thus both the index buffer and the vertex attributes. Decompression then happens on the fly on every frame in the mesh...
Microsoft® DirectSR has integrated AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3.1
This integration enhances upscaling capabilities, offering improved temporal stability and detail preservation.
Related software
D3D12 Memory Allocator
The D3D12 Memory Allocator (D3D12MA) is a C++ library that provides a simple and easy-to-integrate API to help you allocate memory for DirectX®12 buffers and textures.
AMD FidelityFX™ Variable Shading
AMD FidelityFX Variable Shading drives Variable Rate Shading into your game.
Vulkan® Memory Allocator
VMA is our single-header, MIT-licensed, C++ library for easily and efficiently managing memory allocation for your Vulkan® games and applications.
AMD FidelityFX™ Hybrid Shadows sample
This sample demonstrates how to combine ray traced shadows and rasterized shadow maps together to achieve high quality and performance.
Related news and technical articles
Using Neural Networks for Geometric Representation
Explore how Neural Intersection Functions (NIF) and the enhanced LSNIF are poised to reshape ray tracing by replacing traditional BVH traversal with efficient, GPU-friendly neural networks...
Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.
CPU performance optimization guide - part 4
Optimize CPU performance by manually writing x64 assembly code, offering a detailed comparison with compiler-generated instructions and achieving improved performance through streamlined...
CPU performance optimization guide - part 3
We look at optimizing CPU performance by reducing the number of instructions, and highlights methods to enhance instruction efficiency and algorithm throughput.
CPU performance optimization guide - part 2
Part 2 of the CPU performance optimization guide explores cache invalidation issues, benchmarking, and prefetch optimization strategies for improved memory performance.
Work Graph Playground a learning framework for GPU Work Graphs
Read about our latest sample for D3D12 GPU Work Graphs. We're making Work Graphs more accessible with a tutorial framework.
Meshlet compression
We show how to diminish the memory footprint of meshlet geometry, thus both the index buffer and the vertex attributes. Decompression then happens on the fly on every frame in the mesh...
Microsoft® DirectSR has integrated AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3.1
This integration enhances upscaling capabilities, offering improved temporal stability and detail preservation.
Related videos
GPU Reshape – Modern Shader Instrumentation and Instruction Level Validation (Digital...
GPU Reshape is, a just-in-time instrumentation framework with instruction level validation of shaders. A deep dive into current validation methodologies, and what the future of instrumentation...
Mesh Shaders – Learning Through Examples (Digital Dragons 2024) – YouTube link
Learn about the new Mesh Shader pipeline which can help to create even more better-looking games.
DirectStorage: Optimizing Load-time and Streaming (GDC 2023 - YouTube link)
Join us for a presentation about DirectStorage and how to integrate it to extract optimal load time and streaming performance.
Introducing AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
In this video Zhuo Chen takes a look at the overview of the design and implementation of the AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK!
Memory Management in the APEX Engine - Digital Dragons 2022
This talk is a joint-presentation with Avalanche Studios Group explaining how their in-house APEX Engine manages memory with the help of VMA/D3D12MA.
Microsoft® Game Stack Live: AMD Ryzen Processor Software Optimization
Join AMD on an adventure thru Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors which power today’s game consoles and PCs. Dive into instruction sets, cache hierarchies, resource sharing, and simultaneous...
Microsoft® Game Stack Live: Denoising Raytraced Soft Shadows on Xbox Series X|S and...
We explain how FidelityFX Denoiser allows for high-quality raytracing results without increasing rays per pixel, and deep dive into specific AMD RDNA™ 2-based optimizations that benefit...
AMD RDNA™ 2 – DirectX® Raytracing 1.1 - YouTube link
Graphics feature architect Rys Sommefeldt provides a short presentation on the major advantages of the new API, and how to best utilize it on AMD RDNA™ 2-based hardware.