Visualize.
Analyze.
Optimize.
Available as part of the Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite.
Meet the Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA) tool. Investigate the performance of your raytracing applications and highlight potential bottlenecks.
Download now - v1.0
RRA is available as part of the Radeon Developer Tool Suite.
Initial release:
- Visualize bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs).
- Show BVH memory usage, instance and triangle counts, and a whole host of other useful statistics.
- Analyze the application environment, using different rendering and coloring modes.
Improving raytracing performance with the Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)
Optimizing the raytracing pipeline can be difficult. Discover how to spot and diagnose common RT pitfalls with RRA, and how to fix them!
Benefits
By using either geometry mode or traversal mode in addition to a selection of coloring modes, RRA allows you to easily spot areas of interest in your scene that need optimizing.
RRA generates easy to understand visualizations of how your DirectX®12 and Vulkan® ray-tracing applications can be optimized. As with all the tools, capturing the ray-tracing content of a game is both quick and simple, using the Radeon™ Developer Panel and our public GPU driver.
To help get you started, we’ve produced a short video to show you what you need to do:
Introduction to raytracing with Radeon Developer Tool Suite
In this video, Can Alper introduces RRA V1.0. He explains how to capture games using RDP and evaluate when to use RRA.
Assess your acceleration structures
Get a high level view of your acceleration structures.
See how many TLAS and BLAS objects you are using, how large the acceleration structures are, and how much memory they are consuming.
Visualize the scene
Use the TLAS viewer to visually inspect your scene. Select from a number of coloring modes to highlight areas of interest. See opaque/non-opaque geometry at a glance and a host of other parameters.
Some coloring modes use a range of colors in a heatmap (the surface area heuristic modes, for example) making it easy to see hotspots.
Review your ray traversals
Switch to the traversal counter rendering mode to see how rays interact with your scene.
The heapmap image will show areas that require attention. Generally the more red an area, the greater the counter number. The counter types can be selected to show instance hit, box hit/miss, triangle hit/miss and more.
Inspect those instances
A list of all of the instance in the TLAS is available. A separate table is available for instances of a particular BLAS.
Blast through your BLASes
Here, you can see high level statistics for every BLAS in your scene, including things such as memory usage and triangle counts.
All the tables in RRA, like the other tools, have column sorting and text searching so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for.
Double-clicking on a BLAS will display it in the BLAS viewer, almost identical to the TLAS viewer but allows inspection of a single BLAS.
Requirements
Supported GPUs
- Radeon™ RX 6000 series
Supported graphics APIs
- DirectX® 12
- Vulkan®
Supported OSs
- Windows® 10
- Windows® 11
- Linux – Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Vulkan® only)
- Linux – Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Vulkan® only)
Required driver
Version history
- This is the first public release of the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer
Related content
GDC 2022 videos
Discover our videos and slides from the GDC 2022, including FSR 2.0, ray tracing, Ryzen optimizations, and presentations with game devs.
Raytracing Performance Revealed – How to Optimize your Game with the Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite – YouTube link
In this presentation, we demonstrate how to use Radeon™ GPU Profiler and Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer, to illuminate performance issues.
Breaking down the world of Athia: the technologies of Forspoken – YouTube link
This session covers the collaboration between AMD and Luminous Productions on their upcoming title: Forspoken.
Performant Reflective Beauty – Hybrid Raytracing with Far Cry 6 – YouTube link
This session covers the collaboration between AMD and Ubisoft on Far Cry 6, implementing Hybrid RayTraced Reflections.
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.
Microsoft® Game Stack Live: Denoising Raytraced Soft Shadows on Xbox Series X|S and Windows with FidelityFX
We explain how FidelityFX Denoiser allows for high-quality raytracing results without increasing rays per pixel, and deep dive into specific AMD RDNA™ 2-based optimizations that benefit both Xbox Series X|S and PC.
AMD RDNA™ 2 – DirectX® Raytracing 1.1 – YouTube link
Graphics feature architect Rys Sommefeldt provides a short presentation on the major advantages of the new API, and how to best utilize it on AMD RDNA™ 2-based hardware.
The RDP provides a communication channel with the Radeon™ Adrenalin driver. It generates event timing data used by the Radeon™ GPU Profiler (RGP), and the memory usage data used by the Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV).
Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV) is a tool to allow you to gain a deep understanding of how your application uses memory for graphics resources.
RGP gives you unprecedented, in-depth access to a GPU. Easily analyze graphics, async compute usage, event timing, pipeline stalls, barriers, bottlenecks, and other performance inefficiencies.
Radeon GPU Analyzer is an offline compiler and performance analysis tool for DirectX®, Vulkan®, SPIR-V™, OpenGL® and OpenCL™.
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