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Featured GPUOpen software blogs

Major AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite updates for AMD RDNA 4 architecture

Read the highlights of our updates to the AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite to support the launch of AMD RDNA 4 architecture!

Building Better Applications Together: Open Source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming

Read about the new AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK, built using our AMF SDK and designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience.

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.

Advancing AI in Video Games with AMD Schola

By connecting popular open-source RL libraries (written in Python) with the visual and physics capabilities of Unreal Engine, Schola empowers AI researchers and game developers alike to push the boundaries of intelligent gameplay.

Featured technical blogs

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.

Boosting GPU Radix Sort performance: A memory-efficient extension to Onesweep with circular buffers

Discover a high-performance, memory-efficient extension to Onesweep radix sort on GPUs, featuring circular buffers and advanced optimization techniques that reduce global memory access and improve sorting throughput.

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.

GPU Work Graphs in Microsoft DirectX® 12

Our primer on GPU Work Graphs introduces this exciting new paradigm for graphics developers, which enable a live shader kernel to dispatch new workloads on-demand without needing to circle back around to the CPU first.

Need to make things go faster?

RDNA Performance Guide

Our one-stop resource for getting great AMD RDNA™ performance on Vulkan® and DirectX®12 APIs!

AMD Ryzen CPU Performance Guide

Design faster. Render faster. Iterate faster. Our one-stop resource for getting great AMD Ryzen performance.

Unreal Engine Performance Guide

Our one-stop guide to performance with Unreal Engine.

Prefer to watch things instead?

Here's some great videos, but we have more on our videos page!

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.

GDC 2024 - GPU Work Graphs: Welcome to the Future of GPU Programming - YouTube link

This talk by Matthäus Chajdas gives a first look at this brand new API and shows how it's going to transform the GPU programming landscape going forward.

GDC 2024 - Mesh Shaders in AMD RDNA™ 3 Architecture - YouTube link

This talk describes the mesh shader pipeline and how it maps to the AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture.

GDC 2024 - High Performance Rendering in Snowdrop using AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) - YouTube link

Learn about how AMD FSR 3 was integrated into the Snowdrop engine, which issues were faced and how the integration helped to improve FSR 3.

Just getting started?

Getting started: Our software

New or fairly new to AMD's tools, libraries, and effects? This is the best place to get started on GPUOpen!

Getting started: Development and performance

Looking for tips on getting started with developing and/or optimizing your game, whether on AMD hardware or generally? We've got you covered!

Developing Vulkan® applications

Discover our Vulkan blog posts, presentations, samples, and more. Find out how we can help you create and optimize your Vulkan applications!

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!

And there's even more...

AMD GPU architecture programming documentation

A repository of AMD Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and Micro Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation

Introducing AMD lab notes – new programming tutorials for HPC and ML

In this blog series, we share the lessons learned from tuning a wide range of scientific applications, libraries, and frameworks for AMD GPUs.

Presentations and manuals

Don't miss our manual documentation! And if slide decks are what you're after, you'll find 100+ of our finest presentations here.

Publications

Discover our published publications.

How about a searchable table of all our blogs?

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	Title & Description
	Introducing AMD GI-1.2 with multibounce indirect real-time rendering AMD GI-1.2, our real-time Global Illumination solution, is available now as part of the AMD Capsaicin Framework v1.3.
	AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 plugin updated for Unreal Engine 5.7 Our AMD FSR 4 plugin has been updated to support Unreal® Engine 5.7, empowering you to build expansive, lifelike, and high-performance worlds.
	AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite updated with new GPU support and significant RGP enhancements The latest version of the RDTS is designed to empower developers with enhanced capabilities for profiling, analyzing, and optimizing their GPU applications.
	ONNX and DirectML execution provider guide - part 1 Learn how to optimize neural network inference on AMD hardware using the ONNX Runtime with the DirectML execution provider and DirectX 12 in the first part of our guide.
	ONNX and DirectML execution provider guide - part 2 Learn how to optimize neural network inference on AMD hardware using the ONNX Runtime with the DirectML execution provider and DirectX 12 in the second part of our guide.
	Topaz Labs brings generative AI video enhancement to AMD Radeon GPUs Topaz Labs and AMD collaborate to bring generative AI video enhancement to client devices with AMD Radeon™ GPU technologies, enabling real-time performance and significant gains in video processing workflow.
	Sim-to-real in AMD Schola Replicating a physical line-following device in Unreal® Engine and training it with reinforcement learning using AMD Schola.
	A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.
	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.
	AMD FidelityFX SDK 2.0 launches our neural rendering technologies for developers Learn about the launchpad for our ML-based rendering technologies, inc. AMD FSR 4 and upcoming FSR Redstone features.