AMD details Dense Geometry Format (DGF) with hardware acceleration support for upcomi

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AMD DGF hardware decode is reserved for next-gen RDNA, here’s how it works

AMD blog post focuses on upcoming tech. 



AMD’s latest GPUOpen post adds animation support to its Dense Geometry Format (DGF). You can use DGF on today’s GPUs through shaders, but true hardware-accelerated DGF is planned for “future RDNA GPUs”, which means RDNA5. DGF was first shown in 2024, and AMD also published a provisional Vulkan extension this summer.

What DGF does: it packs small chunks of a mesh (up to 64 vertices and 64 triangles) into 128-byte blocks. Each block stores positions in a compact way and uses a light topology scheme. The new sample shows how to animate by blending vertices on the GPU, then writing the updated positions back into those blocks.


Source: AMD

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