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Our engineers (and guest bloggers) have created a vast array of GPUOpen software blogs, technical blogs, samples, videos, papers, and much, much more for you to discover here on GPUOpen.

Featured GPUOpen software blogs

Major AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite updates for AMD RDNA 4 architecture

Read the highlights of our updates to the AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite to support the launch of AMD RDNA 4 architecture!

Building Better Applications Together: Open Source AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming

Read about the new AMD Advanced Interactive Streaming (AIS) SDK, built using our AMF SDK and designed from the ground up to transform streaming from passive viewing into an immersive experience.

Solving the Dense Geometry Problem

Discover how AMD's Dense Geometry Compression Format (DGF) revolutionizes graphics by compressing complex models for efficient real-time rendering, bridging the gap between rasterization and ray tracing.

Advancing AI in Video Games with AMD Schola

By connecting popular open-source RL libraries (written in Python) with the visual and physics capabilities of Unreal Engine, Schola empowers AI researchers and game developers alike to push the boundaries of intelligent gameplay.

Featured technical blogs

Using Neural Networks for Geometric Representation

Explore how Neural Intersection Functions (NIF) and the enhanced LSNIF are poised to reshape ray tracing by replacing traditional BVH traversal with efficient, GPU-friendly neural networks for accelerated performance and high-fidelity imagery.

Boosting GPU Radix Sort performance: A memory-efficient extension to Onesweep with circular buffers

Discover a high-performance, memory-efficient extension to Onesweep radix sort on GPUs, featuring circular buffers and advanced optimization techniques that reduce global memory access and improve sorting throughput.

Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates

A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.

GPU Work Graphs in Microsoft DirectX® 12

Our primer on GPU Work Graphs introduces this exciting new paradigm for graphics developers, which enable a live shader kernel to dispatch new workloads on-demand without needing to circle back around to the CPU first.

Need to make things go faster?

RDNA Performance Guide

Our one-stop resource for getting great AMD RDNA™ performance on Vulkan® and DirectX®12 APIs!

AMD Ryzen CPU Performance Guide

Design faster. Render faster. Iterate faster. Our one-stop resource for getting great AMD Ryzen performance.

Unreal Engine Performance Guide

Our one-stop guide to performance with Unreal Engine.

Prefer to watch things instead?

Here's some great videos, but we have more on our videos page!

GPU Reshape – Modern Shader Instrumentation and Instruction Level Validation (Digital Dragons 2024) – YouTube link

GPU Reshape is, a just-in-time instrumentation framework with instruction level validation of shaders. A deep dive into current validation methodologies, and what the future of instrumentation may hold.

GDC 2024 - GPU Work Graphs: Welcome to the Future of GPU Programming - YouTube link

This talk by Matthäus Chajdas gives a first look at this brand new API and shows how it's going to transform the GPU programming landscape going forward.

GDC 2024 - Mesh Shaders in AMD RDNA™ 3 Architecture - YouTube link

This talk describes the mesh shader pipeline and how it maps to the AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture.

GDC 2024 - High Performance Rendering in Snowdrop using AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) - YouTube link

Learn about how AMD FSR 3 was integrated into the Snowdrop engine, which issues were faced and how the integration helped to improve FSR 3.

Just getting started?

Getting started: Our software

New or fairly new to AMD's tools, libraries, and effects? This is the best place to get started on GPUOpen!

Getting started: Development and performance

Looking for tips on getting started with developing and/or optimizing your game, whether on AMD hardware or generally? We've got you covered!

Developing Vulkan® applications

Discover our Vulkan blog posts, presentations, samples, and more. Find out how we can help you create and optimize your Vulkan applications!

Developing DirectX® applications

Developing with DirectX? This page shares our DirectX blog posts, presentations, samples, and more. Let us help you create and optimize your DirectX applications!

And there's even more...

AMD GPU architecture programming documentation

A repository of AMD Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) and Micro Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation

Introducing AMD lab notes – new programming tutorials for HPC and ML

In this blog series, we share the lessons learned from tuning a wide range of scientific applications, libraries, and frameworks for AMD GPUs.

Presentations and manuals

Don't miss our manual documentation! And if slide decks are what you're after, you'll find 100+ of our finest presentations here.

Publications

Discover our published publications.

How about a searchable table of all our blogs?

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	Title & Description
	AMD TressFX 5.0 for Unreal Engine 5 is now available 4th August 2025 AMD TressFX 5.0 has been updated for high-quality simulation and rendering of realistic hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.
	Generative AI model for Global Illumination effects 15th July 2025 Our generative AI research leverages diffusion-based techniques to generate indirect illumination effects for the new era of neural rendering.
	Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs 11th July 2025 This article is a quick how-to guide for using the WMMA intrinsics with our new AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture GPUs.
	Enhancing AMD Radeon GPU Detective Output with DirectX Debug Information 17th June 2025 With version 1.5 of AMD Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) you can now use the debug information that is produced by the Microsoft DirectX® Shader Compiler.
	Introducing the Latest AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite with Support for AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 17th June 2025 We've released an updated AMD Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite, including enhanced versions of tools such as the Radeon GPU Detective, Profiler, Raytracing Analyzer, Memory Visualizer, GPU Analyzer, and Developer Panel, now with expanded GPU support.
	Using Neural Networks for Geometric Representation 7th May 2025 Explore how Neural Intersection Functions (NIF) and the enhanced LSNIF are poised to reshape ray tracing by replacing traditional BVH traversal with efficient, GPU-friendly neural networks for accelerated performance and high-fidelity imagery.
	Boosting GPU Radix Sort performance: A memory-efficient extension to Onesweep with circular buffers 6th May 2025 Discover a high-performance, memory-efficient extension to Onesweep radix sort on GPUs, featuring circular buffers and advanced optimization techniques that reduce global memory access and improve sorting throughput.
	Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates 11th April 2025 A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.
	CPU performance optimization guide - part 4 25th March 2025 Optimize CPU performance by manually writing x64 assembly code, offering a detailed comparison with compiler-generated instructions and achieving improved performance through streamlined instruction sets.
	CPU performance optimization guide - part 3 25th March 2025 We look at optimizing CPU performance by reducing the number of instructions, and highlights methods to enhance instruction efficiency and algorithm throughput.