Mesh shaders on AMD RDNA™ graphics cards

Despite the flexibility and performance mesh shading can add to the geometry stage, we find that the technology has not been widely adopted in rendering engines so far. The purpose of this article series is to revisit mesh shading five years after its initial rollout between 2018-2019.

As a result, this blog series aims to demystify mesh shading by providing more detailed explanations, analysis, use-case examples, tutorials, and general advice.

• Part 1: From vertex shader to mesh shader
• Part 2: Optimization and best practices
• Part 3: Font- and Vector-Art Rendering with Mesh Shaders
• Part 4: Procedural grass rendering
• Part 5: Meshlet compression