AMD did not release its technical demonstration for download today, which many of us expected. Instead, the company has uploaded a 3:34 minute video at 1080p and 60FPS to YouTube, where we can see AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics card compatible technology in action.
The demo focuses mainly on raytracing, especially soft shadows and reflections. It also shows the technology used by Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate API, such as the variable shading rate.
AMD RDNA™ 2 “Hangar 21” Technology Demo
DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) is now hardware-accelerated on AMD RDNA2 GPUs. In the demo, we can see raytracing supported by FidelityFX Compute Effects, accompanied by Stochastic Screen Space Reflections (SSSR). In addition, the FidelityFX Denoiser is also used to improve visual quality while reducing the amount of processing power required to create the scene.
For more realistic shading geometry, AMD uses FidelityFX Ambient Occlusion, and to improve performance, variable Fidelity Shading is enabled. Unfortunately, the demo is not available for download, so we cannot test it ourselves.
The demo was pre-recorded on an AMD Radeon RX 6900XT GPU (the first) with a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900 CPU.