Developer Guides

Looking for knowledge beyond our software?

Explore our continually-growing library of technical blogs, written by AMD engineers and guest game developers. Benefit from their valuable experience covering general development techniques, developing with AMD hardware, ray tracing, HPC, ML, Vulkan®, DirectX®, Unreal Engine®, and lots more. 

Some of our recent popular blogs

Getting Started

Find out what you need to get started with Work Graphs for DirectX 12, including the software required, configuration, compiling, and more.

Preface to the CPU performance optimization guide

This article starts a series of posts about CPU performance analysis and optimization methods.

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...

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.

Make sure you don’t miss out on some of our perennially popular blogs too!

Decoding Radeon™ Vulkan® versions

A guide to using our machine-readable mapping that you can integrate into your software for decoding Radeon™ Vulkan® versions.

Understanding GPU context rolls

Learn what a context roll on our GPUs is, how they apply to the pipeline and how they're managed, and what you can do to analyse them and find out if they're a limiting factor in the...

Optimizing GPU occupancy and resource usage with large thread groups

Sebastian Aaltonen, co-founder of Second Order Ltd, talks about how to optimize GPU occupancy and resource usage of compute shaders that use large thread groups.

Using the Vulkan® Validation Layers

Vulkan validation layers make it easier to catch any mistakes, provide useful information beyond basic errors and minimize portability issues.

Don’t forget – you can find blog posts related specifically to our tools, SDKs, and effects in our software blogs. 

Browse through all our technical blogs in one place