AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective
AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) is a tool for post-mortem analysis of GPU crashes. RGD can capture AMD GPU crash dumps from DirectX® 12 apps.
Software
Our talented engineering teams continue to innovate and develop critically-acclaimed and widely-used software products to help developers push the boundaries on what is possible with games and graphics applications.
With so many tools, SDKs, libraries, and effects available, if you’re new to GPUOpen, it’s not always easy to know where to start. This page is designed to be a helping hand to introduce you to what is available and point you in the right direction!
Note: GPUOpen also has an ever-increasing repository of documentation and videos, giving detailed support to developers in areas such as our hardware, programming, analysis, performance, and much more. We have a similar “getting started” page for this as well – why not take a look?
Tools
Our very popular Radeon Developer Tool Suite is a package containing several tools to help you analyze and optimize your graphics applications, and now includes ray tracing analysis. With support for Windows and Linux, and DirectX and Vulkan, our tool suite is the right place to start when you need to look at performance.
You can find out more and download the tool suite from any of the pages linked below.
AMD Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer
AMD Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA) is a tool which allows you to investigate the performance of your raytracing applications and highlight potential bottlenecks.
AMD Radeon™ Developer Panel
The RDP provides a communication channel with the Radeon™ Adrenalin driver. It generates event timing data used by the Radeon™ GPU Profiler (RGP), and the memory usage data used by...
AMD Radeon™ Memory Visualizer
AMD Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV) is a tool to allow you to gain a deep understanding of how your application uses memory for graphics resources.
AMD Radeon™ GPU Profiler
AMD RGP gives you unprecedented, in-depth access to a GPU. Easily analyze graphics, async compute usage, event timing, pipeline stalls, barriers, bottlenecks, and other performance...
AMD Radeon™ GPU Analyzer
Radeon GPU Analyzer is an offline compiler and performance analysis tool for DirectX®, Vulkan®, SPIR-V™, OpenGL® and OpenCL™.
Videos
Our tools engineers frequently release videos to help developers get the most out of our tools. These are a great way to get started! Links to the slides can be found in the YouTube descriptions.
GDC 2024 - Game Optimization With The Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite - YouTube link
This session presents the latest enhancements in the RDTS, a rich set of GPU profilers and analyzers and a new GPU crash analysis tool.
GDC 2024 - Post-mortem GPU crash analysis with AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) -...
This session covers different types of failures - when they occur, why they are difficult to debug, and how RGD can help to identify a crash's root cause.
Optimizing Game Performance with the Radeon Developer Tool Suite (GDC 2023 - YouTube...
This talk gives an overview of RGP, RMV, RRA, and RGA, introducing new features and improvements, and reveal the current work in progress.
Game Optimization: Radeon™ Developer Tools on RADV and Steam Deck™ (Vulkanised 2023...
This talk at Vulkanised 2023 covers how to use the Radeon Developer Tool Suite (RDTS) to optimize games using RADV and Steam Deck.
Introduction to raytracing with Radeon Developer Tool Suite
In this video, Can Alper introduces RRA V1.0. He explains how to capture games using RDP and evaluate when to use RRA.
Raytracing Performance Revealed - How to Optimize your Game with the Radeon™ Developer...
In this presentation, we demonstrate how to use Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer, to illuminate performance issues.
AMD RDNA™ 2 – Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.10 - YouTube link
RGP 1.9 and 1.10 introduce support for AMD Radeon™ RX6000 series GPUs, a new memory cache counter feature, and support for DirectX® and Vulkan® ray tracing.
AMD RDNA™ 2 – Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite - YouTube link
This video describes the benefits of bundling the Radeon™ GPU Profiler, Radeon™ Memory Visualizer, Radeon™ GPU Analyzer, and the Radeon™ Developer Panel into a single downloadable suite.
Blogs
We are continually developing our tools, and our tools engineers will write new blog posts with every significant new update, to help you get the most out of the latest features.
There are too many to list here, so head on over to find our tools blogs on our software blogs page.
SDKs and libraries
We have a wide variety of libraries available, ranging from SDKs to give you access to GPU hardware information, to libraries that help you to manage memory when developing with low-level APIs Vulkan and Direct3D.
Besides the ones shown below, you can find lots more on our SDKs page.
AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming SDK
The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK provides developers with a set of building blocks and samples that allow to easily create custom low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming,...
Dense Geometry Compression Format SDK
Dense Geometry Compression Format (DGF) is our block-based geometry compression technology. It is a hardware-friendly format, supported by future GPU architectures.
AMD Schola
AMD Schola is a library for developing reinforcement learning (RL) agents in Unreal Engine and training with your favorite python-based RL Frameworks.
AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2
AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 reduces the system latency by applying frame alignment between the CPU and GPU jobs.
AMD Capsaicin Framework
Capsaicin is a Direct3D12 framework for real-time graphics research which implements the GI-1.0 technique and a reference path-tracer.
Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
The Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK provides a framework for graphics engines to use Render Graphs with explicit APIs.
AMD Device Library eXtra (ADLX) SDK
ADLX is a modern library designed to access features and functionality of AMD systems such as Display, 3D graphics, Performance Monitoring, GPU Tuning, and more.
Brotli-G SDK
Brotli-G is an open-source compression/decompression standard for digital assets (based on Brotli) that is compatible with GPU hardware.
HIP Ray Tracing
HIP RT is a ray tracing library for HIP, making it easy to write ray tracing applications in HIP.
Orochi
Orochi is a library which loads HIP and CUDA® APIs dynamically, allowing the user to switch APIs at runtime.
Radeon™ ProRender Suite
AMD Radeon™ ProRender is our fast, easy, and incredible physically-based rendering engine built on industry standards that enables accelerated rendering on virtually any GPU, any CPU,...
AMD Advanced Media Framework SDK
The AMD Advanced Media Framework SDK provides developers with optimal access to AMD GPUs for multimedia processing.
Blogs
To help you get the best out of our libraries, our engineers often write blogs to assist. There are far too many to list here, but you should take a look at the SDKs section on our software blogs page.
Effects
While AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution is currently our most widely-known effect, our FidelityFX library of technologies does not end with FSR!
Now you can obtain all our FidelityFX technologies wrapped up in one easy-to-use package – the AMD FidelityFX SDK.
Here’s the current list of AMD FidelityFX technologies – and growing!
AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer/GI
AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer GI is compute-based real-time dynamic global illumination solution built upon sparse distance fields.
AMD FidelityFX™ Breadcrumbs library
AMD FidelityFX Breadcrumbs library uses the breadcrumbs marker technique to track down where your submitted commands cause a GPU crash.
AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3)
Discover frame generation with AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3, and get the source code and documentation!
AMD FidelityFX™ Lens
AMD FidelityFX Lens is an AMD RDNA™ architecture optimized implementation of some of gaming's most used post-processing effects.
AMD FidelityFX™ Depth of Field (DoF)
AMD FidelityFX Depth of Field is an AMD RDNA™-architecture optimized implementation of physically correct camera-based depth of field.
AMD FidelityFX™ SDK
The AMD FidelityFX SDK is our easy-to-integrate solution for developers looking to include FidelityFX features into their games.
AMD FidelityFX™ Blur
AMD FidelityFX Blur is an AMD RDNA™ architecture optimized collection of blur kernels from 3x3 up to 21x21.
AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2)
Learn even more about our new open-source temporal upscaling solution FSR 2, and get the source code and documentation!
Hybrid ray tracing
You don’t want to miss our hybrid ray tracing samples, also a part of the AMD FidelityFX SDK, which efficiently balance rasterization and ray tracing to help you maximise the impact of adding ray tracing to your games.
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.
Cauldron framework
If you’re working with our effects, you’re going to need to know about Cauldron, our experimentation framework which you can use to try out our effects and also get started with your own development.
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.
AMD FidelityFX™ Cauldron Framework
AMD FidelityFX Cauldron Framework is our open-source experimentation framework for DirectX®12 and Vulkan®, provided in the AMD FidelityFX SDK.
And neither do our effects end with AMD FidelityFX – AMD TressFX is still widely used and developed, with plugins for popular engines.
Videos
Unsurprisingly, as our effects are so popular, we have a lot of videos produced by our engineers, often in collaboration with game developers where you can learn detailed information! Here are just some of our effects-related videos:
GDC 2024 - High Performance Rendering in Snowdrop using AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution...
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.
GDC 2024 - Global Illumination with AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer, plus AMD FidelityFX...
This talk briefly discusses how the AMD FidelityFX™ Brixelizer works, then explores how diffuse and specular global illumination is implemented with sparse distance fields in Brix GI.
Temporal Upscaling - Past, Present, and Future (GDC 2023 - YouTube link)
This talk focuses on temporal upscaling, describing how the algorithm generates a final image and how FSR mitigates against common artifacts.
The FidelityFX™ SDK (GDC 2023 - YouTube link)
Join AMD as we unveil the FidelityFX SDK, a consolidation of all the great FidelityFX technologies into a sleek, easy-to-use SDK.
Unreal Engine 4 TressFX 5.0
Watch our video explaining what UE4 TressFX 5.0 is, and how to use it. TressFX is designed to simulate and render realistic hair and fur.
A guided tour of Blackreef: rendering technologies in Deathloop - YouTube link
This talk will deep-dive into the rendering technology of Deathloop. We will explore the challenges and lessons learned.
Breaking down the world of Athia: the technologies of Forspoken - YouTube link
This session covers the collaboration between AMD and Luminous Productions on their upcoming title: Forspoken.
Performant Reflective Beauty - Hybrid Raytracing with Far Cry 6 - YouTube link
This session covers the collaboration between AMD and Ubisoft on Far Cry 6, implementing Hybrid RayTraced Reflections.
Blogs
While you can currently find the documentation for our effects packaged with them on GitHub, we’ve written a few handy blogs to guide you over on our software blogs page. These include guides on how to implement FidelityFX Super Resolution and TressFX in Unreal Engine.
Samples
We have compiled an ever-growing large library of samples to help you get started with our effects, DirectX®, Vulkan®, integrating our libraries, and much more.
Radeon ProRender and HIP
AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based path traced rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce photorealistic images. We have several SDKs associated with it, along with support for HIP.
HIP Ray Tracing
HIP RT is a ray tracing library for HIP, making it easy to write ray tracing applications in HIP.
Orochi
Orochi is a library which loads HIP and CUDA® APIs dynamically, allowing the user to switch APIs at runtime.
Radeon™ ProRender Suite
AMD Radeon™ ProRender is our fast, easy, and incredible physically-based rendering engine built on industry standards that enables accelerated rendering on virtually any GPU, any CPU,...
AMD Radeon™ ProRender SDK
AMD Radeon™ ProRender SDK is a powerful physically-based path traced rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images.
Radeon™ Rays
The lightweight accelerated ray intersection library for DirectX®12 and Vulkan®.
Videos
As well as videos on ProRender, we also have a video demonstrating how to use our very popular USD Hydra plugin for Blender.
AMD Blender® USD™ Hydra™ Plug-in Overview - YouTube link
This tutorial video demonstrates how to use our USD Hydra plug-in for Blender®, which uses the power of Open Standards to enable you to reference and assemble USD™, and use MaterialX.
AMD RDNA™ 2 – Hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing in Radeon™ ProRender 2.0 - YouTube...
Introducing the new version of AMD Radeon™ ProRender 2.0 with AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards support. Find out about the performance optimizations we achieved from the hardware...
Radeon™ ProRender Full Spectrum Rendering 2.0: The Universal Rendering API - YouTube...
Introducing the new version of Radeon™ ProRender 2.0, the Universal Rendering API.
Blogs
We keep developers regularly updated with what’s going on in the world of ProRender, HIP, and our associated plugins. There are too many to list here, but you can find them over on our software blogs page.
Tools not on GPUOpen
While we obviously recommend our own tools available here on GPUOpen, there are others you may also find useful, produced both by AMD and by third parties. Here’s a selection:
AMD μProf
AMD μProf is a software profiling analysis tool that provides event information unique to the AMD “Zen”-based processors and AMD INSTINCT™ MI Series accelerators. AMD μProf enables...
RenderDoc
RenderDoc is a very popular free (MIT licensed) stand-alone graphics debugger. It provides straightforward single frame capture, and detailed examination of any application across a...
Microsoft® GPUView
GPUView is a development tool that reads logged video and kernel events from an event trace log (.etl) file and presents the data graphically to the user.
Windows® Performance Analyzer (WPA)
WPA is included in the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK). It is a tool that creates graphs and data tables of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) events that are recorded...
Microsoft® PIX
Microsoft PIX provides performance tuning and debugging for DirectX® 12 games on Windows®.
Blogs
We often give guidance on using some of these other tools in our performance guides and blogs. You can find some of the blogs here:
Explore GPUOpen!
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