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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


Matthäus G. Chajdas @NIV_Anteru

Blog
2018 - Introduction to compute shaders
2018 - More compute shaders
2018 - Even more compute shaders
GPU database


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


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


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

AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing OpenCL Programming Guide


Radeon GPU Analyzer / Radeon Raytracing Analyzer

USING RADEON™ GPU ANALYZER WITH DIRECTX®12 GRAPHICS
USING RADEON™ GPU ANALYZER WITH DIRECT3D®12 COMPUTE
Improving raytracing performance with the Radeon™ Raytracing Analyzer (RRA)


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


Turing

2018 - NVIDIA Turing Architecture In-Depth
2018 - NVIDIA TURING GPU ARCHITECTURE


Ampere

2021 - NVIDIA AMPERE GA102 GPU ARCHITECTURE


Ada

2022 - NVIDIA ADA GPU ARCHITECTURE
2022 - SHADER EXECUTION REORDERING


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

Vulkan Samples
2019 - Optimising a AAA Vulkan Title on Desktop
2020 - Vulkan Ray Tracing Best Practices for Hybrid Rendering


Arm

Introducing the Arm architecture
Arm GPU Best Practices Developer Guide
Principles of High Performance
Accelerating 2D Applications


GDC

Advanced Graphics Summit talks, 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

Database

PerfTest: GPU shader memory operation performance test tool (with results)
GPUInfo 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


Nvidia - NVIDIA Developer Tools

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath SDK


AMD - Radeon Developer Tool Suite

Radeon GPU Analyzer
Radeon Raytracing Analyzer
Radeon Memory Visualizer
Radeon GPU Detective


Intel

Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers


Thanks JoseEmilio-ARM for ARM part.