FidelityFX SPD

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Changelist v2.0

• Added support for cube and array textures. SpdDownsample and SpdDownsampleH shader functions now take index of texture slice as an additional parameter. For regular texture use 0.
• Added support for updating only sub-rectangle of the texture. Additional, optional parameter workGroupOffset added to shader functions SpdDownsample and SpdDownsampleH.
• Added C function SpdSetup that helps to setup constants to be passed as a constant buffer.
• The global atomic counter is automatically reset to 0 by the shader at the end, so you do not need to clear it before every use, just once after creation

Single Pass Downsampler - SPD

FidelityFX Single Pass Downsampler (SPD) provides an RDNA-optimized solution for generating up to 12 MIP levels of a texture.

• Generates up to 12 MIP levels (maximum source texture size is 4096x4096) per slice.
• Supports Texture2DArrays / CubeTextures: downsamples all slices within one single disptach call.
• Single compute dispatch.
• User defined 2x2 reduction function.
• User controlled border handling.
• Supports various image formats.
• HLSL and GLSL versions available.
• Rapid Packed Math support.
• Uses optionally subgroup operations / SM6+ wave operations, which can provide faster performance.
• Supports downsampling of a sub-rectangle from the source texture: useful for atlas textures in which only a known region got updated

Sample Build Instructions

1. Clone submodules by running 'git submodule update --init --recursive' (so you get the Cauldron framework too)
2. Run sample/build/GenerateSolutions.bat
3. Open solution, build + run + have fun 😊

SPD Files

You can find them in ffx-spd

• ffx_a.h: helper file
• ffx_spd: contains the SPD function and integration documentation

Sample

Downsampler

• PS: computes each mip in a separate pixel shader pass
• Multipass CS: computes each mip in a separate compute shader pass
• SPD CS: uses the SPD library, computes all mips (up to a source texture of size 4096²) in a single pass

SPD Load Versions

• Load: uses a load to fetch from the source texture
• Linear Sampler: uses a sampler to fetch from the source texture. Sampler must meet the user defined reduction function.

SPD WaveOps Versions

• No-WaveOps: uses only LDS to share the data between threads
• WaveOps: uses Intrinsics and LDS to share the data between threads

SPD Non-Packed / Packed Versions

• Non-Packed: uses fp32
• Packed: uses fp16, reduced register pressure

Recommendations

We recommend to use the WaveOps path when supported. If higher precision is not needed, you can enable the packed mode - it has less register pressure and can run a bit faster as well. If you compute the average for each 2x2 quad, we also recommend to use a linear sampler to fetch from the source texture instead of four separate loads.

Known issues

Please use driver 20.8.3 or newer. There is a known issue on DX12 when using the SPD No-WaveOps Packed version. It may appear as "Access violation reading location ..." during CreateComputePipelineState, with top of the stack pointing to amdxc64.dll. To workaround this issue, you may advise players to update their graphics driver or don't compile and use a different SPD version, e.g. a Non-Packed version.