Monday, February 23rd 2015

AMD Seeks New GPU Driver Developers for CPU Optimization

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btarunr
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AMD put up a new Linkedin job post, looking for a new engineer that can better optimize graphics drivers for CPUs. AMD graphics drivers are known in the developer community to be rather CPU-heavy compared to NVIDIA's drivers. The company changed that perception to some extent with the development of its own Mantle 3D API, which is essentially a CPU-optimization exercise disguised as new technology. Sensing that not every developer is willing to implement Mantle, the company is looking to optimize its drivers to be CPU-efficient across other more industry-standard APIs. If you have the chops, and you're willing to work out of Boxborough, MA or Sunnyvale, CA., find the posting here.

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32 Comments on AMD Seeks New GPU Driver Developers for CPU Optimization

#26
ur6beersaway
I wonder how much $$$ a year AMD pays a driver-smith.
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#27
AsRock
TPU addict
RejZoRI frankly don't like NVIDIA control panel at all. It's clumsy and badly organized. It's really bad these days and I wish they'd stick with NVMax interface design. That 3rd party app was freaking brilliant when I owned NVIDIA cards back in those days.

And they both suck (AMD and NVIDIA) when it comes to tray icon and tray controls. Why is it so freaking hard to give users quick direct controls for FSAA, AF, Transparency AA and MLAA/FXAA filtering options? Stuff that you fiddle most often and it's digged inside freaking 5 submenus. Fucking retarded.
HUH, it's 2 clicks and scroll wheel, how frigging idle are people these days really ?. Although i guess you could count the 2 clicks to open the program too but surly nVidia's you have to do that too.
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#28
RejZoR
Why open the program at all!? That's the whole point of tray controls. Direct in 2-3 clicks and like 2 seconds time.
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#29
renz496
that picture reminds me...what happen to the promised public mantle SDK by the end of 2014?
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#30
R-T-B
renz496that picture reminds me...what happen to the promised public mantle SDK by the end of 2014?
It ended up being a lie, sadly.
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#31
siriq
My observe is when i had ati 4850 i could not over clock my cpu as much when i got my 570. Sound strange but makes it clear. Just need more cpu power to use ati/amd vga(i am not the only one whos got the same experience). Even more what u could expect. Anyway, take a look on early dx12 bench. Shows the same thing in dx 11.
OC different is 200-300+ on nvidia vga side.
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#32
arbiter
siriqMy observe is when i had ati 4850 i could not over clock my cpu as much when i got my 570. Sound strange but makes it clear. Just need more cpu power to use ati/amd vga(i am not the only one whos got the same experience). Even more what u could expect. Anyway, take a look on early dx12 bench. Shows the same thing in dx 11.
OC different is 200-300+ on nvidia vga side.
Can't say so much years ago, but GPU's now Nvidia does seem to keep the clocks on the conservative side, AMD seems like they push clock up to what most they can get outta them. Use 290x since its current one for amd and 900 series for nvidia. 290x most all them only get around what 100-150mhz over stock (i said most of them). Where as if you get a 980, base clock is 1126 and most cards can get a good 1500+mhz outta them. Probably a reason why nvidia seems to overclock a ton more is they aren't as aggressive with their clocks as AMD is.
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