AMD HIPRT 3.2 released today as the first update to this HIP ray-tracing library since the beginning of 2026.
AMD continues enhancing this ray-tracing library for HIP that is used by a variety of cross platform software like Blender. One of the most notable changes with HIPRT 3.2 is supporting the upcoming AMD Medusa APUs. Medusa is the upcoming Zen 6 client CPU/APU family. The HIPRT 3.2 release notes Medusa as having the graphics IP versions GFX1170, GFX1171, and GFX115E.
HIPRT 3.2 also has some performance optimizations like unrolling transform functions. This updated library also now supports shear on SRT frames, CUDA 13 compatibility enhancements, and coding work to provide for large scale modernization of the codebase. There are also a number of different bug fixes collected in HIPRT 3.2.
The full list of HIPRT 3.2 changes can be found via GitHub.