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GPU Optimization for GameDev

Graphics Pipeline / GPU Architecture Overview

2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
2015 - Life of a triangle - NVIDIA's logical pipeline
2015 - Render Hell 2.0
2016 - How bad are small triangles on GPU and why?
2017 - GPU Performance for Game Artists
2019 - Understanding the anatomy of GPUs using Pokémon
2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES
2020 - All the pipelines - journey through the GPU

By Author

Emil Persson @Humus
- Blog
- 2013 - Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages
- 2014 - Low-Level Shader Optimization for Next-Gen and DX11
- 2018 - Rule of optimization
Matt Pettineo @mynameismjp
- Blog
- 2018 - Breaking Down Barriers
- 2021 - The Shader Permutation Problem
Louis Bavoil @louisbavoil
- 2018 - The Peak-Performance-Percentage Analysis Method for Optimizing Any GPU Workload
- 2018 - Fixing the Hyperdrive: Maximizing Rendering Performance on NVIDIA GPUs (Presented by NVIDIA)
- 2019 - Optimizing DX12/DXR GPU Workloads using Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace and the Peak-Performance-Percentage (P3) Method (Presented by NVIDIA)
- 2020 - Optimizing Compute Shaders for L2 Locality using Thread-Group ID Swizzling
- 2021 - Dana Elifaz - The Next Level of Optimization Advice with Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace
- 2022 - (GDC Paywall) Optimizing Ray Tracing GPU Workloads using Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace and Nsight Systems
- D3D11 Vendor Hacks
Rys Sommefeldt @ryszu
- Blog
- 2018 - Understanding GPU context rolls
Michal Drobot @michaldrobot
- Blog
- 2014 - Low Level Optimizations for GCN – Digital Dragons 2014
- 2014 - GCN Execution Patterns in Full Screen Passes
- 2014 - ShaderFastLibs
Kostas Anagnostou @KostasAAA
- Blog
- 2018 - DD2018: Kostas Anagnostou - Experiments in GPU occlusion culling
- 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES
- 2020 - GPU ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES (twitter thread)
- 2020 - WHAT IS SHADER OCCUPANCY AND WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT IT?
- 2020 - TO Z-PREPASS OR NOT TO Z-PREPASS
- 2022 - SHADER TIPS AND TRICKS
- 2023 - LOW-LEVEL THINKING IN HIGH-LEVEL SHADING LANGUAGES 2023
Matthäus G. Chajdas @NIV_Anteru
- Blog
- 2018 - Introduction to compute shaders
- 2018 - More compute shaders
- 2018 - Even more compute shaders
Matthijs De Smedt @anji_nl
- 2016 - PC GPU Performance Hot Spots
Maurizio Cerrato @speedwago
- 2019 - GPU Architectures
Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen
- Blog
- 2017 - Optimizing GPU occupancy and resource usage with large thread groups
- 2018 - DD2018: Sebastian Aaltonen - GPU based clay simulation and ray tracing tech in Claybook
- 2018 - This is how I managed to port Claybook from consoles to ~4x slower handheld
Layla Mah @MissQuickstep
- 2013 - The AMD GCN Architecture - A Crash Course
- 2013 - Powering the Next Generation of Graphics: The AMD GCN Architecture
Sven Andersson @andsve
- Blog
- 2014 - Real-time Rendering Blogs
Fabian Giesen @rygorous
- Blog
- 2011 - A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011
Timothy Lottes
- 2016 - Understanding Memory Coalescing on GCN
- 2017 - ADVANCED SHADER PROGRAMMING ON GCN
- 2018 - Engine Optimization Hot Lap
Robert Menzel @renderpipeline
- Blog
- 2012 - Low-Level GPU Documentation
RasterGrid @rastergrid
- Blog
- 2021 - Understanding GPU caches
Adam Sawicki @Reg__
- Blog
- 2020 - A Better Way to Scalarize a Shader
- 2021 - Efficient Use of GPU Memory in Modern Games
Matías N. Goldberg @matiasgoldberg
- Blog
- 2020 - A little clarification on modern shader compile times
- 2022 - The road to 16-bit floats GPU is paved with our blood
Francesco Cifariello Ciardi @FCifaCiar
- Blog
- 2018 - INTRO TO GPU SCALARIZATION
Sébastien Lagarde @SebLagarde
- Blog
- 2014 - Inverse trigonometric functions GPU optimization for AMD GCN architecture
Bart Wronski @BartWronsk
- Blog
- 2014 - GCN – two ways of latency hiding and wave occupancy
- 2021 - Is this a branch?
Elizabeth Baumel @Icetigris
- 2016 - Tightening Up the Graphics: Tools and Techniques for Debugging and Optimization
Anton Schreiner @antonschrein
- Blog
- 2019 - What's up with my branch on GPU?

By Organization

AMD
- GPU Open and Talks
  - Events Presentations
  - AMD GPU ISA documentation (GCN,Vega,CDNA,RDNA,RDNA2)
  - 2014 - Vertex Shader Tricks
  - 2016 - Leveraging asynchronous queues for concurrent execution
  - 2016 - AMD GCN Assembly: Cross-Lane Operations
  - 2017 - Wave Programming in D3D12 and Vulkan
  - 2017 - D3D12 and Vulkan Done Right
  - 2017 - Deep Dive: Asynchronous Compute
  - 2018 - Optimize your engine using compute @ 4C Prague 2018 | (Youtube)
  - 2018 - Optimization with Radeon GPU Profiler - A Vulkan Case Study
  - 2019 - DirectX 12 Optimization Techniques in Capcom’s RE ENGINE
  - 2019 - A BLEND OF GCN OPTIMIZATION AND COLOR PROCESSING
  - 2019 - AMD GPU Performance Revealed
  - 2019 - Triangles Are Precious
  - 2020 - Let’s build
    - AMD Ryzen™ Processor Software Optimization
    - Optimizing for the Radeon™ RDNA Architecture
    - From Source to ISA: A Trip Down the Shader Compiler Pipeline
    - A Review of GPUOpen Effects
    - Curing Amnesia and Other GPU Maladies With AMD Developer Tools
    - Radeon™ ProRender Full Spectrum Rendering 2.0: The Universal Rendering API
  - 2020 - CONCURRENCY MODEL IN EXPLICIT GRAPHICS APIS
  - 2021 - Understanding Graphs in Radeon GPU Profiler and GPUView
  - 2023 - Occupancy explained
- GCN
  - 2013 - GCN3 Instruction Set Architecture
  - 2019 - AMD GCN ISA: a first dive
  - GPUOpen-Drivers/pal on Github
  - AMD-FirePro/SDK on Github
- RDNA
  - 2019 - INTRODUCING RDNA ARCHITECTURE
  - 2019 - RDNA Architecture
  - 2020 - "RDNA 1.0" Instruction Set Architecture
  - 2020 - "RDNA 2" Instruction Set Architecture
  - 2020 - RDNA2 Performance Guide
  - 2022 - "RDNA3" Instruction Set Architecture
- Driver
  - Platform Abstraction Library (PAL)
  - AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
- OpenCL
  - 2013 - AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing OpenCL Programming Guide
- Radeon GPU Analyzer / Radeon Raytracing Analyzer
Nvidia
- Developer Blog and Talks
  - 2012 - GPU Performance Analysis and Optimization
  - 2015 - Constant Buffers without Constant Pain
  - 2016 - Practical DirectX 12
  - 2016 - Reading Between The Threads: Shader Intrinsics
  - 2016 - DX12 Do's And Don'ts
  - 2016 - High-Performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan
  - 2019 - Tips and Tricks: Ray Tracing Best Practices
  - 2020 - Optimizing Graphics Applications using Nsight Systems and Nsight Graphics
  - 2020 - RTX Ray Tracing Best Practices
  - 2021 - Advanced API Performance
  - 2022 - Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)
  - 2023 - Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing
  - 2023 - Advanced API Performance: Shaders
- Pascal
  - 2016 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Whitepaper
  - 2023 - Tuning CUDA Applications for Pascal
- Turing
  - 2018 - NVIDIA Turing Architecture In-Depth
  - 2018 - NVIDIA TURING GPU ARCHITECTURE
  - 2023 - Tuning CUDA Applications for Turing
- Ampere
  - 2020 - NVIDIA AMPERE GA102 GPU ARCHITECTURE
  - 2023 - Tuning CUDA Applications for NVIDIA Ampere GPU Architecture
- Ada
  - 2022 - NVIDIA ADA GPU ARCHITECTURE
  - 2022 - SHADER EXECUTION REORDERING
  - 2023 - Tuning CUDA Applications for NVIDIA Ada GPU Architecture
- CUDA
  - 2014 - CUDA Pro Tip: Optimized Filtering with Warp-Aggregated Atomics
Intel
- Gamedev
- Intel® Processor Graphics: Architecture & Programming
Microsoft
- DirectX-Specs
- 2019 - New in D3D12 – background shader optimizations
Khronos Group
Arm
GDC
- Advanced Graphics Summit Not specifically on optimization
- 2016 - Optimizing the Graphics Pipeline With Compute
(JP) CEDEC
- 2016 - GPU最適化入門
  - (Book) マンガとイラストでわかる! GPU最適化入門
Siggraph
- Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games Not specifically on optimization
- 2009 - From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work
- 2020 - LOW-LEVEL OPTIMIZATIONS IN THE LAST OF US PART II
CMU
- 2017 - Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming

Game Graphics Study

Graphics Studies Compilation

GPU Database

GPU Specs Database by techpowerup
GPU database by Matthäus G. Chajdas
GPUInfo by Sascha Willems For Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES
(JP) GPU Spec Database by HYPERでんち

Tools

Online Shader Compiler
- Compiler Explorer (godbolt) Support DXC, AMD RGA
- Shader Playground Support DXC, FXC, glslang, hlsl2glsl, hlslparser, IntelShaderAnalyzer, AMD RGA, slang, XShaderCompiler
Microsoft
- GPUView
- PIX
  - Adding performance instrumentation for PIX APIs
Nvidia - NVIDIA Developer Tools
- NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
- NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath SDK
AMD - Radeon Developer Tool Suite
Intel
- Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers
Utility
- PerfTest A simple GPU shader memory operation performance test tool
- D3d12info by Adam Sawicki Get GPU information through DXGI and Direct3D 12 (D3D12) + AMD AGS, NVAPI, WinAPI, and some other sources

Thanks JoseEmilio-ARM for ARM part.

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