Advanced Shader Delivery State Object Compiler
To help prepare a game for Advanced Shader Delivery support on AMD graphics hardware, developers can use the AMD Direct3D® 12 State Object Compiler plugin.
The new Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) instructions added in HLSL Shader Model 6.8 allow shader developers to accelerate Generalized Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) matrix operations of the form:
WMMA instructions task all threads in a wave to collaboratively perform a matrix-multiply operation with higher efficiency and throughput than previously achievable using SM 6.7 or earlier instructions.
GEMM operations have many uses in in signal-processing, physics simulations, machine learning, and computer vision.
Some examples include:
- Performing Fast-Fourier Transforms for signal processing, such as audio, radio, or radar applications
- Applying filters and post-processing to images
- Calculating deformation of objects and fluids, such as fluid/physics sim or molecular simulation
- Implementing deep learning operators – for example convolution, multi-layer-perceptron, neural radiance fields, and so on.
For more information on WMMA, see:
- Release notes for Microsoft® Agility SDK Preview Release v1.711.3 including support for WaveMMA.
- A preview AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ driver (includes the AMD implementation of the current WaveMMA specification on AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series graphics GPUs).
- rocWMMA on GitHub.
