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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. 

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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 shader.

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.

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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 performance of your game or application.

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. 

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	Sim-to-real in AMD Schola 2nd October 2025 Replicating a physical line-following device in Unreal® Engine and training it with reinforcement learning using AMD Schola.
	Animating geometry with AMD DGF 23rd September 2025 The AMD DGF SDK has been updated with improvements and new features, including the addition of an animation-aware encoding pipeline.
	AMD releases Vulkan support for Dense Geometry Format 5th August 2025 We’ve released a provisional Vulkan® extension for AMD Dense Geometry Format (DGF), our block-based geometry compression technology.
	CPU performance optimization guide - part 4 25th March 2025 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 25th March 2025 We look at optimizing CPU performance by reducing the number of instructions, and highlights methods to enhance instruction efficiency and algorithm throughput.

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