AMD Updates Radeon Developer Toolkit with RX 9070 Series Support

AMD has officially launched its new mid-range RX 9070 series graphics cards, which have impressed users with their excellent price-performance ratio and significantly upgraded ray tracing capabilities. AMD has now updated its Radeon Developer Toolkit software package, bringing several new features alongside support for the RX 9070 series cards.

One major update is the addition of Linux support in "Driver Experiments," giving developers access to driver settings previously available only to AMD engineers. This is particularly valuable for developers who want to test applications and games on Linux-based operating systems without modifying source code.

The Radeon GPU Profiler now supports the RX 9000 series. Version 2.4 introduces numerous enhancements, including the ability to profile Pure Compute DirectX 12/Vulkan and DirectML applications for deeper analysis. Both RGP and RDP (Radeon Developer Panel) can now capture profiles for pure compute and console-based applications, rather than just frame-based applications. RGP 2.4 also offers improved support for Work Graphs applications and enhances several UI elements in the ISA view.

Radeon GPU Detective (RGD) introduces a new "Hardware Crash Analysis" feature that allows developers to examine the GPU's state during crashes, helping them quickly troubleshoot issues. While RGD could already analyze GPU crashes, this update provides detailed low-level data that makes it easier to understand root causes. The Hardware Crash Analysis adds a fourth execution marker called "[#] Shaders in Flight" after the third step of an ongoing analysis. This feature has several planned updates coming soon, including the addition of advanced and intermediate source code.

Additionally, AMD has updated both the Radeon GPU Analyzer and AMD GPU Performance API, with the former bringing several enhancements to the ISA disassembly view, and the latter adding support for the RX 9070 series, Strix Halo, and Krackan Point APUs.

Finally, the Radeon Raytracing Analyzer has received a significant update to support the RX 9000 series, along with updates to the boundary volume hierarchy.