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Featured GPUOpen software blogs

Welcome to the AMD FSR SDK 2.2, now available on GPUOpen

The AMD FSR™ "Redstone" SDK 2.2 update delivers ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1 optimized for AMD RDNA™ 4 graphics, enabling higher visual fidelity and performance with analytical fallbacks to scale across handhelds, consoles, and PCs.

Announcing AMD Schola v2: Next-generation reinforcement learning for Unreal Engine

AMD Schola v2 is a major update to the open-source reinforcement learning plugin for Unreal® Engine 5, offering significant improvements in capabilities, performance, and ease of use for training and deploying AI agents.

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.

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.

Featured technical blogs

AMD FSR™ Redstone for developers and the neural rendering future

The AMD FSR Redstone SDK enables developers to integrate neural rendering technologies, including ML-powered upscaling, frame generation, denoising, and radiance caching, for next-generation gaming experiences.

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.

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.

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.

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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

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	WMMA guide for AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs - part 3 Learn how to implement fast in-register matrix transpose on AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture GPUs with a WMMA-based identity trick, delivering a lightweight, memory-free alternative proven in Llama.cpp.
	WMMA guide for AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs - part 2 Achieve peak AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture memory bandwidth for low-precision GEMM by fusing WMMA to double the K dimension, enabling 128-bit loads for FP8/INT8, and matching hipBLAS results bit-for-bit.
	WMMA guide for AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs - part 1 Practical guide to fusing GEMMs on AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture, covering WMMA layout, a transpose-by-swapping A/B technique, HIP sample code, and hipBLAS-verified results used in Llama.cpp.
	Announcing AMD Schola v2.1: state trees, scale, and a richer training stack AMD Schola v2.1 deepens Unreal Engine integration, adding StateTree support, Kubernetes-oriented distributed training, stronger Minari workflows, and much more to streamline training and inference at scale.
	AMD DGF: An Open Geometry Compression Standard AMD is partnering with Samsung on a multivendor Vulkan extension for Dense Geometry Format (DGF) to help enable dramatically smaller geometry, reduced memory/latency for ray-traced real‑time 3D, and easier engine integration.
	Introducing AMD DGF SuperCompression AMD DGF SuperCompression (DGFS) cuts DGF geometry file sizes while preserving exact block reconstruction and enabling fast decode to either DGF blocks or conventional meshlets for cross-device deployment.
	Introducing MiniDXNN: MLP library for DirectX 12 MiniDXNN is a native HLSL and DirectX 12 library for lightning-fast MLP inference leveraging AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 series matrix cores via cooperative vector APIs, delivering optimized kernels, samples, full source and docs to remove compute interop friction.
	How GOALS delivers sustained, competitive esports performance on handheld PCs - part 1 The first part of a developer-first look at how GOALS leverages AMD Ryzen APUs and the ADLX SDK to implement a system that reduces power, fan noise and carbon footprint across legacy and handheld hardware while preserving competitive performance.
	How GOALS delivers sustained, competitive esports performance on handheld PCs - part 2 The second part of how GOALS optimizes AMD Ryzen handheld PC gaming performance using AMD FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation, handcrafted device profiles, football-aware animation budgeting, and battery-aware scalability for sustained play.
	Welcome to the AMD FSR SDK 2.2, now available on GPUOpen The AMD FSR™ "Redstone" SDK 2.2 update delivers ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1 optimized for AMD RDNA™ 4 graphics, enabling higher visual fidelity and performance with analytical fallbacks to scale across handhelds, consoles, and PCs.