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AMD Also Announces Radeon PRO Software Initiative

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Alongside the new WX hardware products, the WX4100, 5100 and 7100, AMD also revealed a new software initiative aimed at enterprises. The most important part is continued, issue-free usage of hardware solutions, but AMD stands to take a two-pronged attack: through performance-enabling hardware, as well as stable, predictable, and robust software solutions.





To that end, AMD is planning to start delivering enterprise drivers on the 4th Thursday of each month, ensuring businesses can prepare ahead of time for the needed maintenance on their systems, while also guaranteeing the software passes all the needed robustness checks before being deployed, such as extended and stress testing, complying with or exceeding certification standards, and platform testing. AMD is also declaring renewed attention towards the achievement of performance improvements throughout the life cycle of its products in these enterprise scenarios. This new schedule applies to all of AMD's professional cards line-up, including the existing FirePro cards, with their most recent driver release on October 27th (driver 16.Q4) serving as the first release under this schedule.

Such a move form AMD may elicit memories: AMD was once on a monthly driver-release schedule for their drivers on the consumer graphics segment as well, which resulted in less-than-stellar optimizations and general driver health than their current as-needed basis. That said, this approach does make much more sense in the business space, where predictability and reliability, allowed by the more spaced-out driver releases, are much more important than staying on the cutting-edge of performance improvements.



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Will they finally do something about OpenGL on Linux? Because their crappy performance in that area has been a cornerstone of generations of AMD cards, dating back to ATI days.
 
They should ditch the stupid "Radeon Software Crimson Edition" (who thought such ridiculously long name would make any sense?) and have just two brandings:
Radeon Gamer Software
Radeon Pro Software

Gamer for consumer models, Pro for professional solutions. Simple, short, self explanatory.
 
They should ditch the stupid "Radeon Software Crimson Edition" (who thought such ridiculously long name would make any sense?) and have just two brandings:
Radeon Gamer Software
Radeon Pro Software

Gamer for consumer models, Pro for professional solutions. Simple, short, self explanatory.
I would go with "AMD driver Control Panel" instead. It's not like cleverly naming a piece of software (which users will install anyway) is going to boost any sales.
 
I am fine with Crimson. As for linux system, Vulkan is the future and OpenGL will no longer be an issue.
 
"Radeon Software Crimson Edition" (who thought such ridiculously long name would make any sense?)

I can hear heavy breathing from Creative Labs camp.
 
I am fine with Crimson. As for linux system, Vulkan is the future and OpenGL will no longer be an issue.
Vulkan may be the future, but whoever buys a professional card today, buys it to run the software that exists now.
And despite the whole "Vulkan is the future" slogan, OpenGL will still be around for years to come.
 
Would it kill a sheep to just call it AMD driver?

Don't be so sheephobic. "AMD Radeon Driver". Yeah, who would've thought, right? Or there again, what was wrong with AMD Catalyst? It sounded cool and it even meant something. A catalyst is a substance that initiates the "chain reaction". Driver was what initiated the magic in hardware. It made sense and it sounded cool. And then they went with this "Crimson Edition" bollocks...
 
Or there again, what was wrong with AMD Catalyst? It sounded cool and it even meant something. A catalyst is a substance that initiates the "chain reaction". Driver was what initiated the magic in hardware. It made sense and it sounded cool. And then they went with this "Crimson Edition" bollocks...

The name was inspired by Nvidia's Detonator (that in turn was putting TNT cards to work), they probably figured it's about time they moved on.
 
if only the naming scheme was AMD's biggest problem right now..
 
AMD is losing color identity. Red, Black, Green, and now Blue. What next Yellow?

Might as well rename the company to Rainbow.
 
Correct me if im wrong, but wasnt the WX series, the cards with directly attached SSD?

Btw amd's color-crisis is more interesting than i thought (i like the blue scheme...but in my opinion they need to switch to black for consumer series and red for firepro (if it still exists than)

sorry for my rly bad english im just unbrained atm...
 
AMD is losing color identity. Red, Black, Green, and now Blue. What next Yellow?

Might as well rename the company to Rainbow.

sigh...gays/lesbians own the rainbow now.
 
I am fine with Crimson. As for linux system, Vulkan is the future and OpenGL will no longer be an issue.
That's not how it works. Vulkan was intended to supplement OpenGL and OpenGL ES. Vulkan isn't exactly an easy API to utilize but, it offers the most performance if used properly. OpenGL is far easier to use but, it's not as performant, just as OpenGL ES is but, for the mobile device space.

@bug is right. AMD needs to improve OpenGL performance and I hope that AMDGPU and AMDGPU-Pro will do that. I've had fairly good results with AMDGPU-Pro myself with respect to performance but, it's certainly not optimal... but don't go spreading the idea that Vulkan was intended to replace OpenGL because, it wasn't. It was intended to be an option where OpenGL has too much overhead and a more performant API (which is harder to use, mind you,) would gain performance but, not all applications require it.
 
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I am fine with Crimson. As for linux system, Vulkan is the future and OpenGL will no longer be an issue.

more and more games might migrate to vulkan but some professional application will stick with OpenGL because of compatibility reason.
 
AMD really needs to stop calling their new stuff 'an initiative'

So many of their initiatives failed, I can't say it instills trust.
 
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