Samples

Looking to get started, or a better way of doing something? Our samples may be just what you’re looking for.

Make sure you don’t miss our new Hybrid Reflections and Hybrid Shadows samples – combining rasterization and ray tracing to help you achieve even greater quality and performance in your game.

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.

GLTFSample Cauldron Sample Project

This sample demonstrates how to use most of Cauldron’s features. It is also a useful reference for getting started with developing your own samples and prototypes.

AMD Freesync™ Premium Pro (HDR) Sample

This sample demonstrates how to enable Freesync Premium Pro (HDR) with the DirectX® 12 and Vulkan® APIs.

CPU Core Counts

This sample code correctly detects the physical and logical cores of today’s modern processors, along with the processor vendor and family.

Barycentrics DirectX® Shader Extension Samples

The Barycentrics samples show how to enable intrinsic instructions in your DirectX®11 or DirectX®12 HLSL code.

Vulkan® mbcnt Sample

This sample shows how to use the AMD_shader_ballot extension and mbcnt to perform a fast reduction within a wavefront.

Vulkan® OoORasterization

The Vulkan™ out-of-order rasterization sample shows how to use the out-of-order rasterization extension.

HelloVulkan Introductory Vulkan® Sample

HelloVulkan is a small, introductory Vulkan® “Hello Triangle” sample which shows how to set up a window, set up a Vulkan context, and render a triangle.

CrossfireAPI11

This sample demonstrates how to use the explicit Crossfire™ application programming interface (API).

Sparse Textures OpenGL®

This sample presents the GL_AMD_sparse_texture extension introduced by AMD FirePro W and AMD Radeon HD 7000 series.

FirePro Framelock OpenGL® Sample

This sample shows how to enable Framelock in an application using the WGL_NV_swap_group extension.

nBody DirectX® 12 Sample (asynchronous compute version)

This is a slightly modified version of the Microsoft D3D12nBodyGravity sample, This sample demonstrates the use of asynchronous compute shaders (multi-engine) to simulate an n-body gravity system.

HelloD3D12 is a small, introductory Direct3D 12 sample, which shows how to set up a window and render a textured quad complete with proper uploading handling, multiple frames queued and constant buffers.

SSAA11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample demonstrates some of the ways in which to reduce scene aliasing without using a post process technique.

SilhouetteTessellation11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This SDK sample implements PN Triangles and Phong tessellation. It also shows how to optimize performance by using adaptive tessellation techniques.

SeparableFilter11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample presents a technique for achieving highly optimized, user-defined separable filters.

MLAA11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample demonstrates a post-process pixel shader technique that applies fullscreen anti-aliasing to an image.

GPUParticles11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample demonstrates how to implement a simple GPU-based particle system.

ForwardPlus11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample provides an example implementation of the Forward+ algorithm, which extends traditional forward rendering to support high numbers of dynamic lights while maintaining performance.

DepthBoundsTest11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

The DepthBoundsTest11 sample shows how to use the Depth Bounds driver extension.

TiledLighting11 DirectX® 11 SDK Sample

This sample provides an example implementation of two tile-based light culling methods: Forward+ and Tiled Deferred.