Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too

I've got good news for many folks gaming on a Team Red rig: Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery is now supported by AMD RDNA 3, 3.5, and 4 GPUs. In other words, graphics cards from the Radeon RX 7000, 8000, and 9000 series now support this tech, via the latest Adrenalin drivers.

Advanced Shader Delivery was first announced back in 2025, exclusively for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds. To put it very simply, rather than your game of choice taking its time to compile and cache shaders the first time you launch it, this tech does all of that before you ever hit 'play'—but only so long as you're downloading games via the Xbox app.

Microsoft previously explained it had "partnered with teams across Xbox and at AMD to precompile [shader] data and distribute it at download." If you fancy a more technical deep dive than this, Read Entire Article