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

Hybrid ray tracing

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.

Just starting out with DirectX® 12 or Vulkan®? 

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.

HelloD3D12 DirectX® 12 Sample

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.

Browse through all our samples…

	glTFSample Cauldron Sample Project 28th August 2020 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.
	Samples Library 15th April 2020 Browse all our useful samples. Perfect for when you're needing to get started, want to integrate one of our libraries, and much more.
	AMD Freesync™ Premium Pro (HDR) Sample 22nd January 2020 This sample demonstrates how to enable Freesync Premium Pro (HDR) with the DirectX® 12 and Vulkan® APIs.
	CPU Core Counts 26th April 2017 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 24th May 2016 The Barycentrics samples show how to enable intrinsic instructions in your DirectX®11 or DirectX®12 HLSL code.
	Vulkan® mbcnt Sample 20th May 2016 This sample shows how to use the AMD_shader_ballot extension and mbcnt to perform a fast reduction within a wavefront.
	Vulkan® OoORasterization 17th May 2016 The Vulkan™ out-of-order rasterization sample shows how to use the out-of-order rasterization extension.
	HelloVulkan Introductory Vulkan® Sample 13th May 2016 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 8th March 2016 This sample demonstrates how to use the explicit Crossfire™ application programming interface (API).
	Sparse Textures OpenGL® 18th January 2016 This sample presents the GL_AMD_sparse_texture extension introduced by AMD FirePro W and AMD Radeon HD 7000 series.

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