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title: 'Vulkan’s Best Practice layer now has AMD-specific checks'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20325-42189b3dfd6b78318c4d690eb0ccaa53'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20325-42189b3dfd6b78318c4d690eb0ccaa53.md'
date: '2021-09-03'
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#  Vulkan’s Best Practice layer now has AMD-specific checks 

  September 3rd at 3:00pm

 AMD has taken feedback on performance suggestions and incorporated them into the validation layer. This layer is designed to alert the user on sub-optimal usage. Read more on how to enable this best practice layer for AMD. 

 [ Read More  ](https://gpuopen.com/learn/vulkan-best-practice-layer)

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