Learn about our GDC 2024 activities, including AMD FSR 3.1, AMD FidelityFX Brixelizer, work graphs, mesh shaders, tools, CPU, and more.

AMD FSR 2 source code is now available! Take a look at our powerful FSR 2 API, as well as full source, samples, and documentation.

We're very excited to share some early details for developers about our upcoming AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution.

This post is the start of a new series which aims to demystify mesh shaders through examples and tutorials.

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One of our engineers shares the improvements we've made with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 to ghosting, temporal stability, and more.

GPU Reshape brings powerful features typical of CPU tooling to the GPU, providing validation of dynamic behaviour. Read on for all of the details.

We are very excited to announce the release of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) technology on GPUOpen, complete with full source code for DirectX 12 and Unreal Engine 5.

Today, the FSR 2.2 source code and accompanying sample is available to all through our GitHub repository.

The source code for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is now available here on GPUOpen. But that's not all...

The FidelityFX SDK is now available! The SDK is FidelityFX graphics middleware helping you to integrate FidelityFX features into your games without any hassle.

With the integration of AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 into games, we're sharing even more technical details for developers.

AMD Capsaicin Framework is a research framework for real-time graphics which we have been using to develop and test new and upcoming rendering algorithms. We are now releasing it to the public.

Find out how to take a closer look at how FSR works, and get inspiration for how to integrate it into your own engine.

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...

Read the latest AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 developer updates from the GPUOpen team.

AMD is providing an experimental AMD extension to access GPU Work Graphs in Vulkan. Check out this post for usage examples and resources.

Introducing "mesh nodes", which make draw calls an integral part of the work graph, providing a higher perf alternative to ExecuteIndirect dispatches.

Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK is now available for open beta access!

The second post in this series on mesh shaders covers best practices for writing mesh and amplification shaders, as well as how to use the AMD Radeon™ Developer Tool Suite to profile and optimize...

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is our open-source, high-quality, high-performance upscaling solution.

The third post in our mesh shaders series covers how to use mesh shaders to simplify font rendering.

AMD is pleased to support Microsoft’s recently released DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU Decompression. DirectStorage must be enabled by developers to realize the benefits.

Find out how to install and configure the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2 plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26/4.27 and UE5.

Find out how to install and configure the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 2 plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26/4.27 and UE5.

In this blog post we will try to demystify what exactly occupancy is, which factors limit occupancy, and how to use tools to identify occupancy-limited workloads.

This sample shows how to combine AMD FidelityFX Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR) with ray tracing in order to create high quality reflections.

Updates to our Unreal Engine plugin for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2, including ghosting improvements and support for UE 5.1.

Radeon Raytracing Analyzer v1.3 adds the ability to inspect casted rays in 3D and examine ray traversal statistics. Check it out now!

Porting the PS4® game Detroit: Become Human to PC presented some interesting challenges. This first part of a joint collaboration from engineers at Quantic Dream and AMD discusses the decision to use...

Updates for v2.1.2 FidelityFX FSR2 v2.1.2 is a small bugfix release that increases image quality under some tested conditions following further integrations into games. FidelityFX FSR2 v2.1.2 impro...

Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) is our brand-new tool for investigating GPU crashes. RGD is included in the Radeon Developer Tool Suite and is available now!

Learn more about the power of work graphs API in our detailed blog, taking you step-by-step through an example which implements a scanline rasterizer.

Discover your best graphics performance by using our open source tools, SDKs, FidelityFX effects, and tutorials.

With the release of v2.2, HIP RT now support multi-level instancing. Multi-level instancing can help to reduce memory requirements, allowing you to render large scenes with limited memory.

The GPUOpen Matrix Compendium covers how matrices are used in 3D graphics and implementations in host code and shading languages. It's a growing guide, so keep checking back!

We're proud to announce Radeon Raytracing Analyzer. RRA provides the tools you need to investigate raytracing performance in your apps.

Our AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3 plugin guide for Unreal Engine guides you the installation and configuration process.

The AMD RDNA™ 3 ISA reference guide is now available! The ISA guide is useful for anyone interested in the lowest level operation of the RDNA 3 shader core.

Microsoft® Agility SDK 1.613.0 is out now including general availability of Work Graphs 1.0 and the GPU Upload Heaps feature.

AMD has been working with Blender to improve support for GPU rendering in Cycles using the open source HIP API.

GPUOpen launched Jan 26, 2016. Here's a look back at some of our successes over the past five years!

Introducing AMD RenderStudio - a set of tools for cross-user collaboration using the OpenUSD and MaterialX ecosystem.

Our one-stop guide to performance with Unreal Engine.

Read about our improvements to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 with the FSR 2.2.1 hotfix.

The GPUOpen Matrix Compendium covers how matrices are used in 3D graphics and implementations in host code and shading languages. It's a growing guide, so keep checking back!

The lightweight accelerated ray intersection library for DirectX®12 and Vulkan®.

Find out more about the work of our Advanced Rendering Research Group, including projects, publications, and more.

This blog post shows how it is possible to use HIP RT to accelerate neighbor search in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations.

The Advanced Media Framework SDK provides developers with optimal access to AMD GPUs for multimedia processing.

It is often difficult to know where to start when taking your first in the world of graphics. This guide is here to help with a discussion of first steps and a list of useful websites.

Contribute to GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/HIPRT development by creating an account on GitHub.

AMD now has driver support for a metacommand implementation intended to improve performance and reduce the time it takes to generate output from the model.

The fourth post in our mesh shaders series takes a look at the specific example of rendering detailed vegetation.

Cauldron is a framework for rapid prototyping that will be used in AMD SDK samples and effects. It supports Direct3D 12 and Vulkan®.

HIP RT is a ray tracing library for HIP, making it easy to write ray tracing applications in HIP.

Bringing the Gears franchise to the PC is not something the Coalition takes lightly. The PC cannot be a port. It has to be something that meets or exceeds th...

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is an open source, high-quality solution for producing high resolution frames from lower resolution inputs.

Find out more about the work of our Advanced Rendering Research Group, including projects, publications, and more.

A new focus on USD and MaterialX workflows, including our brand new MaterialX library, and updates to our Radeon ProRender plug-ins.

AMD now has driver support for a metacommand implementation intended to improve performance and reduce the time it takes to generate output from the model.

This presentation by one of our engineers at GIC 2020 provides an introduction to the graphics pipeline.

Updates for v2.1.1 FidelityFX FSR2 v2.1.1 is a bugfix release that corrects an issue with reprojection data on a frame flagged as reset. FidelityFX FSR2 v2.1.1 improves on FSR v2.0 in multiple ways...

Compressonator v4.5 introduces improved BC1-BC5 compression that reduces file sizes on average by 10%-15% using a new Brotli-G zip packaging feature, mipmap changes, ETC codec fixes, and more.

Announcing the D3D12 version of our Memory Allocator tool.

We're delighted to announce that our Radeon™ Memory Visualizer (RMV) tool is now available as open source under the MIT license.

Orochi is a library which loads HIP and CUDA® APIs dynamically, allowing the user to switch APIs at runtime.

GI-1.1 is available now as part of the AMD Capsaicin Framework. GI-1.1 includes new support for glossy reflections rendering.

Radeon™ GPU Profiler 2.0 is packed with brand-new features and updates. This release includes a new customizable layout to the Wavefront Occupancy View, support for dark mode in UI, thread divergence...

The D3D12_HEAP_TYPE_GPU_UPLOAD flag in Direct3D 12 provides a good alternative to other ways of uploading data from the CPU to the GPU. Check out our quick guide to effective use of this flag.

Our GDC 2024 presentations this year include work graphs, mesh shaders, AMD FSR 3, GI with AMD FidelityFX Brixelizer, AMD Ryzen optimization, RGD, RDTS, and GPU Reshape!

Optimizing the raytracing pipeline can be difficult. Discover how to spot and diagnose common RT pitfalls with RRA, and how to fix them!

The latest release of the Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK adds Linux support, the ability to dynamically load Vulkan functions, and more. Check out this post for the full release notes.

Discover our videos and slides from the GDC 2022, including FSR 2.0, ray tracing, Ryzen optimizations, and presentations with game devs.

Introducing AMD checks for the Vulkan® Best Practice validation layer! Find out more about how it now incorporates many of our performance suggestions.

HIP RT is a ray tracing library for HIP, making it easy to write ray tracing applications in HIP.