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Looking for information about our software products?

The blogs on this page give detailed information about what’s in our new releases and updates, as well as guides on how you can use the new features.

Don’t forget – you can find advice on developing with AMD hardware, ray tracing, Vulkan, DirectX, UE4, and lots more over in our Developer Guides.

Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite

Our highly-acclaimed developer tool suite should be your first port of call when analyzing and optimizing your game or graphics application. Our tools engineers frequently write detailed blog posts to accompany major updates, making sure you’re able to take full advantage of the new features.

The Radeon Developer Tool Suite comprises of:
Radeon GPU Profiler, Radeon Raytracing Analyzer, Radeon Memory Visualizer, Radeon GPU Analyzer, and Radeon™ Developer Panel.

Radeon GPU Profiler (RGP)

The Radeon GPU Profiler is a ground-breaking low-level optimization tool that provides detailed information on Radeon™ GPUs.

RDNA 3: Radeon GPU Profiler 1.14 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 7000 Series, HIP, and more

Radeon GPU Profiler 1.14 is here, with support for Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs, profiling HIP applications, and much more. Take a look!

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.13 and Radeon Developer Panel 2.6

RGP 1.13 adds enhanced ray tracing features, such as new performance counters and inline RT. RDP 2.6 includes improved data capture.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.12 features improvements to Instruction Timing

RGP 1.12 provides some significant enhancements to the Instruction Timing feature, including wavefront filtering and single-wavefront mode.

Understanding Graphs in Radeon GPU Profiler and GPUView

Find out how to read and understand graphs in Radeon GPU Profiler and GPUView in order to optimize your game more effectively.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.11 released

RGP 1.11 introduces ray tracing call targets, enhancements to cache counters, and more.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler v1.10 introduces GPU cache counters, Vulkan® ray tracing, and more

This latest release adds support for GPU cache counters, Vulkan® ray tracing, the latest RDNA™ 2 GPUs, and more.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.9 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series

The latest release of RGP introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series (RDNA™ 2) and DirectX® Raytracing, along with several additional new features.

Unified Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Memory Visualizer usage with Radeon™ Developer Panel 2.1

This tutorial explains how to take advantage of the functionality in RDP v2.1 onwards, which unifies the RMV and RGP functionality from earlier versions to provide a unified workflow.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.8 released

The latest release of Radeon™ GPU Profiler introduces an updated Radeon Developer Panel, Instruction Timing, and more.

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.

Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA)

The Radeon GPU Analyzer is an offline compiler and performance analysis tool for DirectX®, Vulkan®, SPIR-V™, OpenGL®, and OpenCL™.

Visualizing VGPR Pressure with Radeon™ GPU Analyzer 2.6

Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.6 introduces VGPR Pressure Visualization. This post explains exactly how to get the most out of this brand-new feature.

Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 with DirectX® Raytracing

Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 introduces support for DXR shaders in a new mode of the command line tool.

Using the Visual Studio® Code Extension for RGA

This is a Visual Studio® Code extension for the Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA). This extension makes it possible to use RGA directly from within VS Code.

Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with DirectX®12 Graphics

With DirectX 12 comes the power of generating disassembly and hardware resource usage statistics that are closest to the real-world case, and therefore making better performance optimization decisions.

Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with Direct3D®12 Compute

Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA) has support for DirectX12 compute shaders with the command line tool. This mode can generate GCN/RDNA ISA disassembly for your compute shaders, regardless of the physically installed GPU.

Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV)

The Radeon Memory Visualizer allows you to gain a deep understanding of how your application uses memory for graphics resources.

Announcing Radeon™ Memory Visualizer support for Linux

RMV is now available on Linux. RMV and RDP officially support Ubuntu 20.04 with Linux distros requiring additional dependencies. Check it out!

Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.4 introduces Smart Access Memory support

Find out in this blog post how you can make all memory visible to the CPU in Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) v1.4 with Smart Access Memory.

Viewing DirectX® 12 Named Resources with Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.3

Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) now supports Named Resources in DirectX® 12 applications. This blog explains how you can view them in RMV.

Radeon™ Memory Visualizer v1.1 adds support for aliased resources and more

Radeon Memory Visualizer V1.1 introduces support for aliased resources, and allows selection of a resource in the memory leak finder pane.

Unified Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Memory Visualizer usage with Radeon™ Developer Panel 2.1

This tutorial explains how to take advantage of the functionality in RDP v2.1 onwards, which unifies the RMV and RGP functionality from earlier versions to provide a unified workflow.

Getting Started with Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV)

Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV) is a tool provided by AMD for use by game engine developers. It allows engineers to examine, diagnose, and understand the GPU memory management within their projects.

Radeon Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)

Our brand new Radeon Raytracing Analyzer allows you to investigate the performance of your raytracing applications and highlight potential bottlenecks.

RDNA 3: Read about our tool updates in Radeon Developer Tool Suite (RDTS)

Read this high level summary of our updates to RDTS for RDNA™ 3, including other new features and improvements, plus updates to GPUPerfAPI.

Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer source code available + meet amdrdf

Analyze the source code to RRA, and learn about amdrdf, a library for handling Radeon Data File (RDF) format, used by RRA and others.

Improving raytracing performance with the Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)

Optimizing the raytracing pipeline can be difficult. Discover how to spot and diagnose common RT pitfalls with RRA, and how to fix them!

Introducing our brand new tool: Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer 1.0

We’re proud to announce Radeon Raytracing Analyzer. RRA provides the tools you need to investigate raytracing performance in your apps.

SDKs

Find out what we’ve been doing with our libraries and SDKs here!

Announcing Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0.0 and Direct3D 12 Memory Allocator 2.0.0

Find out more about the latest releases of VMA and D3DMA – our easy-to-integrate memory allocation libraries for Vulkan® and Direct3D® 12.

Compressonator 4.2 – Features update for BC1 and BC7 codecs, and more

Compressonator v4.2 brings improvements for BC1 and BC7 codecs, plus API, SDK, and CMake updates.

Compressonator 4.1 – SNORM support for BC4/BC5, MIP map filter support, and more

Compressonator v4.1 adds SNORM support for BC4 and BC5, MIP map filter support using either GPU or CPU, GPU-based compression and MIP map generation, and much more.

GPUPerfAPI v3.7 includes Radeon™ RX 6000 support and new raytracing counters

GPUPerfAPI v3.7 brings support for Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs, new raytracing counters for DirectX® Raytracing, a new scalar and instruction cache counter, and new raytracing High-Frequency counters in Microsoft® PIX2.

Compressonator 4.0 – Utilize the Power of GPU-based Encoding

The Windows version of Compressonator 4.0 supports GPU encoding with DirectX® Compute (DXC) or OpenCL™ (OCL) shaders.

Announcing Compressonator 3.2

The latest version of Compressonator is now available, featuring new BCn codec kernels, framework interfaces, cube maps, and more.

Effects

We’ve written some excellent guides, published here on GPUOpen, on how to use some of our effects, and we’ve also got guest blogs too!

Note: Currently our standard FidelityFX effects have their documentation linked from their pages as they are available through their GitHub repos.

Guest blog by EBB Software: Integrating FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) into Scorn

In this guest post by EBB Software, learn how they integrated our FSR 2.1 plugin for Unreal Engine into their first title: Scorn

FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 1: Intro & improving foliage appearance using the base pass

Discover one of several ways to improve upscaled foliage appearance in the first of this five part blog series on getting the most out of our FSR 2.1 Unreal Engine plugin.

Integrating VRS in The Riftbreaker

EXOR Studios and AMD have collaborated to add Variable Rate Shading in The Riftbreaker. Read this guest blog to find out more!

TressFX 5.0 arrives as a patch for Unreal Engine

UE4 TressFX 5.0 has been designed to build upon the many features of UE4 TressFX 4.1, while being much easier to use. Find out what’s new!

How to use AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 Unreal Engine 4 Plugin

Find out how to install and configure the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 plugin for Unreal Engine 4.

FidelityFX-CLI – Testing FSR and FidelityFX CAS at the command-line

FidelityFX-CLI is a command-line Windows® program to test FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 and Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) on image files.

Integrating AMD FidelityFX into the Ego Engine

Tom Hammersley from Codemasters talks about integrating FidelityFX into the Ego Engine and implementing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS).

Hybrid ray tracing

While not strictly blogs, you should still be aware of our hybrid ray tracing samples – there’s excellent documentation linked from these pages.

Hybrid Stochastic Reflections Sample

This sample shows how to combine FidelityFX Stochastic Screen Space Reflections with ray tracing in order to create high quality reflections.

Hybrid Shadows Sample

This sample demonstrates how to combine ray traced shadows and rasterized shadow maps together to achieve higher quality and performance.

Radeon ProRender and HIP

Our engineers who work on Radeon ProRender and related areas regularly keep you updated on their latest developments.

HIP Ray Tracing 2.0 introduces improved custom function handling, bitcode linking, and more

HIPRT-v2 is now available for download! This post covers some of the most exciting features and optimizations.

Radeon™ ProRender SDK 3.1.0 introduces bevel shader support, light linking, and much more

We are happy to announce Radeon™ ProRender SDK 3.1.0 is finally available, so let’s take a look at the latest updates and improvements.

Latest updates to Radeon™ ProRender plug-ins

Find out more about all our updates to the Radeon ProRender plug-ins, including new fog and shadow settings for ProRender in Blender and Maya.

Introducing HIP RT – a ray tracing library in HIP

HIP RT is a new ray tracing library for HIP. It makes it easy to write a ray tracing app using HIP. Check out this page for more information.

Introducing Orochi – dynamic loading of HIP/CUDA® from a single binary

Orochi is a library that loads HIP and CUDA driver APIs dynamically at runtime, eliminating the overhead of maintaining separate backends.

Primitive variables, flexible ramp node, beta support for HIP in Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.11

The latest release of the ProRender SDK introduces support for primitive variables, enhanced Cryptomatte AOVs, AMD’s HIP API, and much more.

Multi-colored spotlights on couchs to demonstrate the new simple volumes feature in the ProRender SDK

New renderer backend and more in the updated Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.10

Introducing a new renderer backend and support for simpler volumes, cutting planes, and artistic control of shadow color. Also, new SDK tutorials are now available.

Introducing Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.6

Introducing support for Apple M1, heterogeneous volume, and deepEXR. Plus improved CPU rendering, and toon contour rendering.

AMD USD™ Hydra™ plug-in for Blender®

Find out about our exciting new plug-in for Blender®, which uses the power of Open Standards to enable you to reference and assemble USD™, and use MaterialX.

New Radeon™ ProRender plug-in updates

Our Blender® add-on, Autodesk® Maya® plug-in, and the SideFX® Houdini™ (USD) plug-in now incorporate the latest Radeon™ ProRender SDK.

Updated Radeon ProRender 2 SDK now available with many new features

Read about Cryptomatte support, light group AOVs, deformation motion blur, homogeneous volume support, and our toon material in Radeon™ ProRender.

Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing in AMD Radeon™ ProRender 2.0

With specific hardware acceleration features implemented, content creators can accelerate their rendering using AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards with Radeon™ ProRender 2.0.

Searchable table for all our software blogs

Looking for a searchable table of all our software blog posts? Well, you just found it!

the_page_ID	Blog title	Description	Originally posted	Author	page_taxonomy_category
~ID-002077	AMD GPU Services, An Introduction	Useful information about features within our AMD GPU Services (AGS) library.	28th April 2016	Gareth Thomas	Product blogs
~ID-002168	Using AMD Crossfire API	Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) is the method used to take advantage of Multiple GPUs in DirectX® 11 and OpenGL® applications.	5th May 2016	Anas Lasram	Product blogs
~ID-002516	VDR Follow Up – Fine Art of Film Grain	Expanding on Advanced Techniques and Optimization of VDR Color Pipelines: Details on the generation of film grain ideal for transfer functions like sRGB.	4th April 2016	Timothy Lottes	Product blogs
~ID-002565	VDR Follow Up – Grain and Fine Details	This post is going to look at very subtle changes to improve grain and fine details using the same 3-bit/channel quantization case from the prior post.	13th April 2016	Timothy Lottes	Product blogs
~ID-002972	GeometryFX 1.2 – Cluster Culling	With cluster culling, GeometryFX is able to reject large chunks of the geometry – with corresponding performance increases.	18th May 2016	Matthäus Chajdas	Product blogs
~ID-003258	AMD DOPPEngine – Post Processing on Your Desktop in Practice	DOPPEngine changes the output of your desktop in ways that can be very useful with various effects.	23rd May 2016	Bruno Stefanizzi	Product blogs
~ID-003644	Compressonator v2.3 release delivers ASTC, ETC2 codec support and GPU rendered image views	Compressonator is a set of tools to allow artists and developers to more easily create compressed texture image assets and easily visualize the quality impact of various compression technologies.	27th June 2016	Rosanna Ashworth-Jones	Product blogs
~ID-004171	The Importance of Audio in VR	The AMD TrueAudio Next open-source library and driver-controlled CU Reservation enables dramatically higher levels of audio rendering realism in VR.	16th August 2016	Carl Wakeland	Product blogs
~ID-004290	Using RapidFire for Virtual Desktop and Cloud Gaming	RapidFire SDK captures and encodes the input images entirely on the GPU and then copies the encoded result into the system memory for processing on the CPU.	27th September 2016	Bruno Stefanizzi	Product blogs
~ID-004342	VDR Follow Up – Tonemapping for HDR Signals	Follow up on VDR and practical advice on adapting a game’s tonemapping pipeline to both traditional display signals and new HDR output signals.	5th October 2016	Timothy Lottes	Product blogs
~ID-004415	Implementing LiquidVR™ Affinity Multi-GPU support in Serious Sam VR	This guest post by Croteam’s Karlo Jez gives a detailed look at how Affinity Multi-GPU support was added to their game engine.	31st October 2016	Karlo Jez	Product blogs
~ID-004839	AGS 5.0 – Shader Compiler Controls	Guide to using the shader compiler control API in AGS 5.0	12th January 2017	Gareth Thomas	Product blogs
~ID-004861	Profiling video memory with Windows® Performance Analyzer	A guide to using the Windows Performance Analyzer tool, with a focus on video resources.	9th February 2017	Cristian Cutocheras	Product blogs
~ID-005519	AMD LiquidVR™ MultiView Rendering in Serious Sam VR	Croteam’s Karlo Jez writes about AMD LiquidVR MultiView Rendering in Serious Sam VR with the GPU Services (AGS) Library.	27th February 2017	Karlo Jez	Product blogs
~ID-005822	Compressonator V2.5 release adds enhanced HDR support	The BC6H codec has been improved and now offers better quality than previous releases, along with support for both 16 bit Half Float and 32 bit Float formats per channel.	29th March 2017	Rosanna Ashworth-Jones	Product blogs
~ID-005948	Content Creation Tools and Multi-GPU	mGPU isn’t just for gamers – if you’re a developer working on a game, you should think of using mGPU to make your life easier.	5th May 2017	Matthäus Chajdas	Product blogs
~ID-006278	Compressonator V2.6 release adds HDR tonemapping compression, new image analysis features	Information on the new features of Compressonator v2.6.	3rd July 2017	David Wilkinson	Product blogs
~ID-006575	Compressonator V2.7 Release adds cross platform support and 3D Model compression with glTF v2.0	Information about the new features and optimizations in Compressonator v2.7.	27th November 2017	Rosanna Ashworth-Jones	Product blogs
~ID-006903	Compressonator V3.0 release brings powerful new 3D model features	Compressonator is a set of tools that allows artists and developers to work easily with compressed assets and easily visualize the quality impact of various compression technologies.	14th May 2018	Rosanna Ashworth-Jones	Product blogs
~ID-007139	New Compressonator 3.1 SDK for seamless integration into asset toolchains – and more!	This version contains several new features and optimizations, including new installers for the SDK, CLI and GUI tool, new batch compress support, improvements to Compressonator’s BC6H and ETC2 support, a new glTF model previewer, and more.	21st November 2018	Navin Patel	Product blogs
~ID-007332	Using AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro HDR: Color Spaces	The first in a series of four tutorials related to AMD Freesync™ Premium Pro HDR. This tutorial covers terminology related to color.	20th March 2019	Ihor Szlachtycz	Product blogs
~ID-007493	Using AMD Freesync™ Premium Pro HDR: Tone Mapping	In part two of this tutorial, we cover the terminology of tone mapping, what tone mapping is, as well as different monitor features that influence how well a tone mapper will work.	13th May 2019	Ihor Szlachtycz	Product blogs
~ID-007529	Using AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro HDR: Gamut Mapping	In this tutorial, we will be going over what gamut mapping is, how we implemented a gamut mapper to show how FreeSync HDR works, and some pitfalls with different gamut mapping algorithms.	17th June 2019	Ihor Szlachtycz	Product blogs
~ID-007673	Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with Direct3D®12 Compute	Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA) has support for DirectX12 compute shaders with the command line tool. This mode can generate GCN/RDNA ISA disassembly for your compute shaders, regardless of the physically installed GPU.	15th July 2019	Amit Ben-Moshe	Product blogs
~ID-007825	Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer with DirectX®12 Graphics	With DirectX 12 comes the power of generating disassembly and hardware resource usage statistics that are closest to the real-world case, and therefore making better performance optimization decisions.	14th October 2019	Amit Ben-Moshe	Product blogs
~ID-007833	TrueAudio Next Acceleration of Steam Audio Sound Reflections	Higher levels of realism and believability can be achieved when accurate sound reflections are deployed in a game or experience. Spatialized, physically generated reflections can achieve this goal.	21st October 2019	Carl Wakeland	Product blogs
~ID-008277	Integrating AMD FidelityFX into the Ego Engine	Tom Hammersley from Codemasters talks about integrating FidelityFX into the Ego Engine and implementing Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS).	18th December 2019	Tom Hammersley	Product blogs
~ID-008278	Using AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro HDR: Code Samples	Part 4 of a series of posts on AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro Technology. Here, we look at how to enable FreeSync Premium Pro with all next gen graphics APIs.	22nd January 2020	Ihor Szlachtycz	Product blogs
~ID-008283	Announcing Compressonator 3.2	The latest version of Compressonator is now available, featuring new BCn codec kernels, framework interfaces, cube maps, and more.	9th January 2020	Navin Patel	Product blogs
~ID-011694	Using the Visual Studio® Code Extension for RGA	This is a Visual Studio® Code extension for the Radeon GPU Analyzer (RGA). This extension makes it possible to use RGA directly from within VS Code.	9th January 2020	Rosanna Ashworth-Jones	Product blogs
~ID-011724	Getting Started with Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV)	Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV) is a tool provided by AMD for use by game engine developers. It allows engineers to examine, diagnose, and understand the GPU memory management within their projects.	13th May 2020	Colin Riley	Product blogs
~ID-012337	Compressonator 4.0 – Utilize the Power of GPU-based Encoding	The Windows version of Compressonator 4.0 supports GPU encoding with DirectX® Compute (DXC) or OpenCL™ (OCL) shaders.	10th May 2020	Navin Patel	Product blogs
~ID-014063	Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.8 released	The latest release of Radeon™ GPU Profiler introduces an updated Radeon Developer Panel, Instruction Timing, and more.	14th September 2020	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-014241	Unified Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Memory Visualizer usage with Radeon™ Developer Panel 2.1	This tutorial explains how to take advantage of the functionality in RDP v2.1 onwards, which unifies the RMV and RGP functionality from earlier versions to provide a unified workflow.	1st October 2020	Gordon Selley	Product blogs
~ID-014293	FidelityFX-CLI – Testing FSR and FidelityFX CAS at the command-line	FidelityFX-CLI is a command-line Windows® program to test FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 and Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) on image files.	28th July 2021	Adam Sawicki	Product blogs
~ID-014806	Radeon™ Memory Visualizer v1.1 adds support for aliased resources and more	Radeon Memory Visualizer V1.1 introduces support for aliased resources, and allows selection of a resource in the memory leak finder pane.	23rd November 2020	Anthony Hosier	Product blogs
~ID-014939	Compressonator 4.1 – SNORM support for BC4/BC5, MIP map filter support, and more	Compressonator v4.1 adds SNORM support for BC4 and BC5, MIP map filter support using either GPU or CPU, GPU-based compression and MIP map generation, and much more.	23rd November 2020	Navin Patel	Product blogs
~ID-015006	GPUPerfAPI v3.7 includes Radeon™ RX 6000 support and new raytracing counters	GPUPerfAPI v3.7 brings support for Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs, new raytracing counters for DirectX® Raytracing, a new scalar and instruction cache counter, and new raytracing High-Frequency counters in Microsoft® PIX2.	23rd November 2020	Amit Prakash	Product blogs
~ID-015133	Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.9 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series	The latest release of RGP introduces support for Radeon™ RX 6000 Series (RDNA™ 2) and DirectX® Raytracing, along with several additional new features.	23rd November 2020	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-015339	Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing in AMD Radeon™ ProRender 2.0	With specific hardware acceleration features implemented, content creators can accelerate their rendering using AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 Series graphics cards with Radeon™ ProRender 2.0.	23rd November 2020	Takahiro Harada	Product blogs
~ID-016143	Using Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 with DirectX® Raytracing	Radeon™ GPU Analyzer v2.4.1 introduces support for DXR shaders in a new mode of the command line tool.	12th February 2021	Amit Ben-Moshe	Product blogs
~ID-016509	Radeon™ GPU Profiler v1.10 introduces GPU cache counters, Vulkan® ray tracing, and more	This latest release adds support for GPU cache counters, Vulkan® ray tracing, the latest RDNA™ 2 GPUs, and more.	1st April 2021	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-017363	Updated Radeon ProRender 2 SDK now available with many new features	Read about Cryptomatte support, light group AOVs, deformation motion blur, homogeneous volume support, and our toon material in Radeon™ ProRender.	28th April 2021	Takahiro Harada	Product blogs
~ID-019308	New Radeon™ ProRender plug-in updates	Our Blender® add-on, Autodesk® Maya® plug-in, and the SideFX® Houdini™ (USD) plug-in now incorporate the latest Radeon™ ProRender SDK.	7th July 2021	Brian Savery	Product blogs
~ID-019750	Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.11 released	RGP 1.11 introduces ray tracing call targets, enhancements to cache counters, and more.	21st July 2021	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-019914	Compressonator 4.2 – Features update for BC1 and BC7 codecs, and more	Compressonator v4.2 brings improvements for BC1 and BC7 codecs, plus API, SDK, and CMake updates.	30th July 2021	Navin Patel	Product blogs
~ID-020260	AMD USD™ Hydra™ plug-in for Blender®	Find out about our exciting new plug-in for Blender®, which uses the power of Open Standards to enable you to reference and assemble USD™, and use MaterialX.	19th August 2021	Brian Savery	Product blogs
~ID-020291	Introducing Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.6	Introducing support for Apple M1, heterogeneous volume, and deepEXR. Plus improved CPU rendering, and toon contour rendering.	31st August 2021	Takahiro Harada	Product blogs
~ID-020878	How to use AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 Unreal Engine 4 Plugin	Find out how to install and configure the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 plugin for Unreal Engine 4.	23rd November 2021	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-021024	New renderer backend and more in the updated Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.10	Introducing a new renderer backend and support for simpler volumes, cutting planes, and artistic control of shadow color. Also, new SDK tutorials are now available.	17th December 2021	Takahiro Harada	Product blogs
~ID-021100	Understanding Graphs in Radeon GPU Profiler and GPUView	Find out how to read and understand graphs in Radeon GPU Profiler and GPUView in order to optimize your game more effectively.	3rd December 2021	Adam Sawicki	Product blogs
~ID-021698	Viewing DirectX® 12 Named Resources with Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.3	Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) now supports Named Resources in DirectX® 12 applications. This blog explains how you can view them in RMV.	20th January 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-021824	Visualizing VGPR Pressure with Radeon™ GPU Analyzer 2.6	Radeon GPU Analyzer 2.6 introduces VGPR Pressure Visualization. This post explains exactly how to get the most out of this brand-new feature.	20th January 2022	Amit Ben-Moshe	Product blogs
~ID-021948	Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.12 features improvements to Instruction Timing	RGP 1.12 provides some significant enhancements to the Instruction Timing feature, including wavefront filtering and single-wavefront mode.	20th January 2022	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-022639	Introducing Orochi – dynamic loading of HIP/CUDA® from a single binary	Orochi is a library that loads HIP and CUDA driver APIs dynamically at runtime, eliminating the overhead of maintaining separate backends.	1st April 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-022683	Primitive variables, flexible ramp node, beta support for HIP in Radeon™ ProRender SDK 2.02.11	The latest release of the ProRender SDK introduces support for primitive variables, enhanced Cryptomatte AOVs, AMD’s HIP API, and much more.	7th March 2022	Takahiro Harada	Product blogs
~ID-023170	Announcing Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0.0 and Direct3D 12 Memory Allocator 2.0.0	Find out more about the latest releases of VMA and D3DMA – our easy-to-integrate memory allocation libraries for Vulkan® and Direct3D® 12.	25th March 2022	Adam Sawicki	Product blogs
~ID-023996	Introducing HIP RT – a ray tracing library in HIP	HIP RT is a new ray tracing library for HIP. It makes it easy to write a ray tracing app using HIP. Check out this page for more information.	12th April 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-024637	Radeon™ Memory Visualizer 1.4 introduces Smart Access Memory support	Find out in this blog post how you can make all memory visible to the CPU in Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) v1.4 with Smart Access Memory.	21st April 2022	Glen Kwasny	Product blogs
~ID-024662	Radeon™ GPU Profiler 1.13 and Radeon Developer Panel 2.6	RGP 1.13 adds enhanced ray tracing features, such as new performance counters and inline RT. RDP 2.6 includes improved data capture.	21st April 2022	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-024819	TressFX 5.0 arrives as a patch for Unreal Engine	UE4 TressFX 5.0 has been designed to build upon the many features of UE4 TressFX 4.1, while being much easier to use. Find out what’s new!	4th May 2022	Lisen Wang	Product blogs
~ID-025448	Announcing Radeon™ Memory Visualizer support for Linux	RMV is now available on Linux. RMV and RDP officially support Ubuntu 20.04 with Linux distros requiring additional dependencies. Check it out!	13th June 2022	Glen Kwasny	Product blogs
~ID-025484	Latest updates to Radeon™ ProRender plug-ins	Find out more about all our updates to the Radeon ProRender plug-ins, including new fog and shadow settings for ProRender in Blender and Maya.	8th June 2022	Brian Savery	Product blogs
~ID-025705	How to use the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) Unreal Engine plugin	Find out how to install and configure the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2 plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26/4.27 and UE5.	24th June 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-026634	Improving raytracing performance with the Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)	Optimizing the raytracing pipeline can be difficult. Discover how to spot and diagnose common RT pitfalls with RRA, and how to fix them!	15th September 2022	David DiGioia	Product blogs
~ID-029030	FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 1: Intro & improving foliage appearance using the base pass	Discover one of several ways to improve upscaled foliage appearance in the first of this five part blog series on getting the most out of our FSR 2.1 Unreal Engine plugin.	19th October 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-029168	FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 4: Making a specific shading model write to the reactive mask	See ways you can improve suboptimal FSR 2 results caused by animated materials obscured by a fine mesh or grill with no motion vectors.	19th October 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-029297	FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 2: Improving foliage appearance via content changes	Learn which content changes you can make in the Unreal Engine editor to improve the appearance of upscaled foliage.	19th October 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-029298	FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 3: Improving foliage appearance with the ImproveStaticWPO patch	Find out how to apply one of our supplied Unreal Engine patches to improve upscaled foliage appearance with our FSR 2.1 plugin.	19th October 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-029366	FSR 2 UE plugin enhancements part 5: Making materials reactive: Applying the LitReactiveShadingModel patch	This final part demonstrates how to apply the LitReativeShadingModel patch which adds a new Lit Reactive shading model.	19th October 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-032457	Learn about Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer 1.1	The latest update for RRA includes changes to the camera system and support for split triangles and rebraided instances. Check it all out here!	14th December 2022	Anthony Hosier	Product blogs
~ID-034525	RDNA 3: Radeon GPU Profiler 1.14 introduces support for Radeon™ RX 7000 Series, HIP, and more	Radeon GPU Profiler 1.14 is here, with support for Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPUs, profiling HIP applications, and much more. Take a look!	14th December 2022	Chris Hesik	Product blogs
~ID-036468	Introducing AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK	Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK is now available for open beta access!	15th December 2022	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-036855	Announcing GFXReconstruct (v0.9.17) with DirectX®12 and DirectX® Raytracing support	AMD and LunarG are pleased to announce DirectX®12 (D3D12) and DirectX® Raytracing (DXR) support for the GFXReconstruct capture/replay tool.	18th January 2023	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-036927	Guest blog by EBB Software: Integrating FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) into Scorn	In this guest post by EBB Software, learn how they integrated our FSR 2.1 plugin for Unreal Engine into their first title: Scorn	28th February 2023	EBB Software	Product blogs
~ID-037035	AMD ROCm™ Installation (amd-lab-notes)	Installation of the AMD ROCm™ software package can be challenging. This introductory material shows how to install ROCm on a workstation with an AMD GPU card that supports the AMD GFX9 architecture.	26th January 2023	amd-lab-notes	Product blogs
~ID-037066	Introducing Compressonator v4.3	Compressonator v4.3 is out now! v4.3 features Brotli-G lossless compression, multi-texture mipmap generation, and much more.	27th January 2023	GPUOpen	Product blogs
~ID-037553	Radeon™ ProRender SDK 3.1.0 introduces bevel shader support, light linking, and much more	We are happy to announce Radeon™ ProRender SDK 3.1.0 is finally available, so let’s take a look at the latest updates and improvements.	10th March 2023	GPUOpen	Product blogs