Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) is expanding to NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs and the RTX Spark platform later this month. The feature ships pre-compiled shaders with games to reduce loading times and stuttering. Currently, ASD supports AMD RDNA 1 through RDNA 4, Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 with Adreno, and will soon add Intel Arc B-Series (B570, B580) and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 and 3.
The NVIDIA rollout ensures all RTX-based GeForce systems benefit from faster shader compilation. Microsoft demonstrated ASD with Gears of War: E-Day, showing a 95% reduction in shader compilation time. However, early testing on NVIDIA showed a full 15-minute compile due to missing driver support, expected post-launch.
On AMD, driver 26.7.1 or newer is required, but testing on 26.9.2 still resulted in a full compile.
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