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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.

Radeon™ GPU Analyzer

Write faster shaders, faster.

Discover how our tools can help your DirectX®12 development

Discover the D3D12 Memory Allocator (D3D12MA) library

Our battle-tested, open source memory allocation libraries for DirectX®12 make allocating memory a doddle.

Explore what D3D12MA can do for you

Helping you get great performance with DirectX®12

Check out our AMD RDNA™ 2 performance guide for DirectX®12

Developing with DirectX®12? We have a dedicated page to get you started!

Developing DirectX® applications

Developing with DirectX? This page shares our DirectX blog posts, presentations, samples, and more. Let us help you create and optimize your DirectX applications!

Explore the fantastic DirectX®12 Developer resources available from our partners at Microsoft®

Read the Microsoft DirectX®12 developer blogRead the DirectX®12 specs on GitHubExplore the DirectX®12 samples on GitHubWatch DirectX®12 videos on YouTubeJoin in with the DirectX®12 discussion on Discord

Explore our DirectX®12 samples library

AMD FidelityFX™ Hybrid Stochastic Reflections sample

This sample shows how to combine AMD FidelityFX Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR) with ray tracing in order to create high quality reflections.

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.

Check out some of our other DirectX®12 samples

Just want the drivers to play a DirectX®12 game?

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Our latest DirectX®12 news

Enhancing AMD Radeon GPU Detective Output with DirectX Debug Information

With version 1.5 of AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) you can now use the debug information that is produced by the Microsoft DirectX® Shader Compiler.

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 for accelerated performance and high-fidelity imagery.

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 instruction sets.

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 shader.

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 videos

GPU Reshape – Modern Shader Instrumentation and Instruction Level Validation (Digital Dragons 2024) – YouTube link

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 may hold.

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

The brand-new AMD Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK is a comprehensive and extensible Render Graph framework for graphics applications and engines using explicit APIs (such as DirectX® 12 and Vulkan®). In this video we will take a look at the overview of the design and implementation of the SDK. We will demonstrate how the RPS SDK can help game engines building render graphs easily, managing resource barriers and transient memory efficiently, and more!

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 multi-threading. Journey across the sands of silicon to master microarchitecture and uncover best practices!

Microsoft® Game Stack Live: Denoising Raytraced Soft Shadows on Xbox Series X|S and Windows with FidelityFX

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 both Xbox Series X|S and PC.

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.