AMD is expanding Advanced Shader Delivery support across its entire RDNA GPU stack, starting with RDNA 1 and up to RDNA 4.
Microsoft Advanced Shader Delivery Lands On All AMD RDNA GPUs, Giving Load Times A Big Boost
Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery is now being expanded through general availability via the Xbox PC App, and GPUs such as AMD's RDNA series are able to take advantage of ASD in the latest titles.
As per Microsoft, they have partnered with AMD to invest in and improve the experience for PC gamers. This partnership expands with the first rollout of Advanced Shader Delivery across AMD's RDNA discrete GPUs and Integrated GPUs.
One of the first titles to bring Advanced Shader Delivery to AMD RDNA GPUs is Forza Horizon 6, which benefits from the technology by reducing load tiles by 95%. AMD RDNA GPUs running Forza Horizon 6 are able to load the game in just 4 seconds versus 1.5 minutes before ASD. The system used to evaluate this featured an AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800 CPU with 8 Zen 3 cores.
ASD not only brings faster load times, but also reduces shader stuttering. This results in a much better gaming experience. The best part is that ASD comes to all RDNA GPUs starting with RDNA 1, RDNA 2, RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, and the latest RDNA 4 series. The following are the system requirements for running Advanced Shader Delivery on your AMD RDNA GPU:
Device Requirements:
To experience Advanced Shader Delivery at launch, you need the following minimum specs:
Xbox Gaming Services: 37.113.11003.0 or higher (Microsoft Store > Library > Update Gaming Services)
GPU: AMD RDNA 1, RDNA 2, RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, RDNA 4 architectures
Driver: Adrenalin 26.6.1 or higher
Microsoft has already released its latest DirectX Agility SDK, which allows developers to take advantage of ASD for their titles, allowing them to upload the SODB to the Xbox Partner Center to support shader pre-compilation. The software giant also states that it will enable ASD across more Windows devices and other IHV hardware in the coming months.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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