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Featured GPUOpen software blogs

AMD FSR™ Redstone expands with the latest AMD FSR™ SDK 2.1

AMD FSR 'Redstone' SDK 2.1 enables developers to integrate FSR features into games with easy-to-use APIs and access to advanced neural rendering technologies.

Announcing AMD Schola v2: Next-generation reinforcement learning for Unreal Engine

AMD Schola v2 is a major update to the open-source reinforcement learning plugin for Unreal® Engine 5, offering significant improvements in capabilities, performance, and ease of use for training and deploying AI agents.

Introducing AMD GI-1.2 with multibounce indirect real-time rendering

AMD GI-1.2, our real-time Global Illumination solution, is available now as part of the AMD Capsaicin Framework v1.3.

AMD Radeon Developer Tool Suite updated with new GPU support and significant RGP enhancements

The latest version of the RDTS is designed to empower developers with enhanced capabilities for profiling, analyzing, and optimizing their GPU applications.

Featured technical blogs

AMD FSR™ Redstone for developers and the neural rendering future

The AMD FSR Redstone SDK enables developers to integrate neural rendering technologies, including ML-powered upscaling, frame generation, denoising, and radiance caching, for next-generation gaming experiences.

ONNX and DirectML execution provider guide - part 1

Learn how to optimize neural network inference on AMD hardware using the ONNX Runtime with the DirectML execution provider and DirectX 12 in the first part of our guide.

A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch

Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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	How GOALS delivers sustained, competitive esports performance on handheld PCs - part 1 The first part of a developer-first look at how GOALS leverages AMD Ryzen APUs and the ADLX SDK to implement a system that reduces power, fan noise and carbon footprint across legacy and handheld hardware while preserving competitive performance.
	How GOALS delivers sustained, competitive esports performance on handheld PCs - part 2 The second part of how GOALS optimizes AMD Ryzen handheld PC gaming performance using AMD FSR Upscaling and Frame Generation, handcrafted device profiles, football-aware animation budgeting, and battery-aware scalability for sustained play.
	Welcome to the AMD FSR SDK 2.2, now available on GPUOpen The AMD FSR™ "Redstone" SDK 2.2 update delivers ML-powered FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1 optimized for AMD RDNA™ 4 graphics, enabling higher visual fidelity and performance with analytical fallbacks to scale across handhelds, consoles, and PCs.
	Enhancing DirectX Testing with AMD Smoldr Smoldr is an open-source command-line tool that runs DirectX 12 HLSL shaders from simple text scripts, letting you compile, create resources and pipelines, and dispatch compute or raytracing workloads without writing C++ code.
	AMD and Microsoft partner on DirectX ML, DirectStorage, and developer tools at GDC 2026 Microsoft and AMD partnered at GDC to announce powerful new developer technologies for Windows, including DirectStorage 1.4, PIX tools updates, DirectX ML integration, Advanced Shader Delivery, and support for the latest Agility SDK update.
	Driving the future: frictionless automotive HMI development with Epic Games & AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P100 series At CES 2026 Epic Games and AMD unveiled the Unreal Engine 5 Next‑Gen HMI Experience powered by AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P100 Series, unifying instrument clusters, maps, and apps into a single high‑performance UE5 instance with gaming‑class graphics, and a streamlined developer workflow to deliver customizable, 60 FPS in‑cockpit experiences.
	HIP Threads: GPU power for teams without GPU experts HIP Threads lets C++ teams eliminate CPU hotspots by running familiar multithreaded code on AMD GPUs, no kernel rewrites or GPU expertise required, delivering real speedups in days.
	Dyson Sphere Program - new multithreading dev log & full AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO breakdown Youthcat Games overhauled the Dyson Sphere Program game's multithreading system, boosting performance by up to 88% through custom core binding, dynamic task allocation, and enhanced thread synchronization.
	AMD FSR™ Redstone expands with the latest AMD FSR™ SDK 2.1 AMD FSR 'Redstone' SDK 2.1 enables developers to integrate FSR features into games with easy-to-use APIs and access to advanced neural rendering technologies.
	AMD FSR™ Redstone for developers and the neural rendering future The AMD FSR Redstone SDK enables developers to integrate neural rendering technologies, including ML-powered upscaling, frame generation, denoising, and radiance caching, for next-generation gaming experiences.

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