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Here’s where you can find information about previous releases of our tools, SDKs, or effects, along with guides on how to use them.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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| 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-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-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-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-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 |
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