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Featured GPUOpen software blogs

How tetrahedral cages significantly reduce BVH memory usage

The AMD tetrahedral cage technique ray traces 25,000 independently animated plants at 60+ FPS while slashing BVH memory and update costs for massive dynamic scenes.

ADLX 2.0: Extending graphics control to AI agents and agentic apps

AMD ADLX 2.0 adds AI extensions and MCP servers to help developers build intelligent apps that can monitor, manage, and optimize AMD graphics hardware.

AMD FSR plugin updated for Unreal Engine 5.8

The updated AMD FSR™ Unreal® Engine plugin brings ML-powered upscaling and frame generation to Unreal Engine 5.8, now extending FSR Upscaling support to AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs.

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 RDNA 3 Support Now Available in FSR SDK 2.3 Update

AMD FSR "Redstone" SDK 2.3 brings ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1.1 to AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs, along with Frame Generation 4.0.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.2 improvements for RDNA 4 GPUs.

Featured technical blogs

MiniDXNN v0.4.0: Interactive neural texture compression on DirectX 12

MiniDXNN v0.4.0 introduces D3D12 Linear Algebra (SM 6.10) support, input encodings and neural texture compression, plus a real-time GUI app that trains and visualizes GPU-accelerated MLPs on DirectX® 12.

Post-mortem GPU crash debugging with LLMs

The new AMD RGD MCP Server connects LLM agents to AMD's GPU crash analysis pipeline, turning a single prompt into root-cause analysis and source-code fix suggestions.

WMMA guide for AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs - part 1

Practical guide to fusing GEMMs on AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture, covering WMMA layout, a transpose-by-swapping A/B technique, HIP sample code, and hipBLAS-verified results used in Llama.cpp.

Crash Course in Deep Learning (for Computer Graphics)

If you're a graphics dev looking to understand more about deep learning, this blog introduces the basic principles in a graphics dev context.

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RDNA Performance Guide

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AMD Ryzen CPU Performance Guide

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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.

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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.

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	Title & Description
	How tetrahedral cages significantly reduce BVH memory usage The AMD tetrahedral cage technique ray traces 25,000 independently animated plants at 60+ FPS while slashing BVH memory and update costs for massive dynamic scenes.
	ADLX 2.0: Extending graphics control to AI agents and agentic apps AMD ADLX 2.0 adds AI extensions and MCP servers to help developers build intelligent apps that can monitor, manage, and optimize AMD graphics hardware.
	Temporally stable generative illumination with a one-step diffusion model A generative method for real-time global illumination using a single-step latent diffusion model, delivering stable, high-quality lighting without costly iterative processing.
	AMD FSR plugin updated for Unreal Engine 5.8 The updated AMD FSR™ Unreal® Engine plugin brings ML-powered upscaling and frame generation to Unreal Engine 5.8, now extending FSR Upscaling support to AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs.
	Lightweight attention-based indirect illumination Introducing a lightweight, attention-based neural GI model that reconstructs off-screen indirect illumination using reflective shadow maps, generalizing to scenes not seen during training.
	MiniDXNN v0.4.0: Interactive neural texture compression on DirectX 12 MiniDXNN v0.4.0 introduces D3D12 Linear Algebra (SM 6.10) support, input encodings and neural texture compression, plus a real-time GUI app that trains and visualizes GPU-accelerated MLPs on DirectX® 12.
	GPU view-adaptive crack-free subdivision of Bézier surfaces Learn how fast, crack-free GPU work graph subdivision for bicubic Bézier surfaces dramatically reduce triangle counts while simplifying implementation and matching hardware-tessellation quality.
	Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, grass, and crowds.
	Post-mortem GPU crash debugging with LLMs The new AMD RGD MCP Server connects LLM agents to AMD's GPU crash analysis pipeline, turning a single prompt into root-cause analysis and source-code fix suggestions.
	AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 RDNA 3 Support Now Available in FSR SDK 2.3 Update AMD FSR "Redstone" SDK 2.3 brings ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1.1 to AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs, along with Frame Generation 4.0.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.2 improvements for RDNA 4 GPUs.