# What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?

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**Created:** [17 July 2022 14:14 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-is-ngg-and-shader-culling-on-amd-rdna-gpus/64535 "2022-07-17T14:14:51Z")\
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> What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?.  
> NGG (Next Generation Geometry) is the technology that is responsible for any vertex and geometry processing in AMD RDNA GPUs. I decided to do a write-up about my experience implementing it in RADV, which is the Vulkan driver used by many Linux systems, including the Steam Deck. I will also talk about shader culling on RDNA GPUs.

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> **[What is NGG and shader culling on AMD RDNA GPUs?](https://timur.hu/blog/2022/what-is-ngg)**
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> NGG (Next Generation Geometry) is the technology that is responsible for any vertex and geometry processing in AMD RDNA GPUs. I decided to do a write-up about my experience implementing it in RADV, which is the Vulkan driver used by many Linux...

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