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Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery has officially left the Xbox Insider program and is now available through the Xbox PC app, expanding support to every Radeon GPU since the RX 5000 series (2019).

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What
Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery has officially left the Xbox Insider program and is now available through the Xbox PC app, expanding support to every Radeon GPU since the RX 5000 series (2019).
When
Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:38:03 GMT · 4h 59m ago
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Why
Advanced Shader Delivery delivers precompiled shaders with the game download, rather than forcing the CPU to compile them locally, to eliminate long initial load times and traversal stutters.
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This update significantly reduces game load times for Xbox PC users with supported AMD Radeon GPUs, exemplified by Forza Horizon 6 loading in 4 seconds instead of 1.5 minutes. While currently limited to the Xbox PC app and AMD GPUs, Microsoft plans to expand support to more devices and GPU vendors, suggesting future improvements for a wider PC gaming audience.

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