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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and sells computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets.
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I don’t know, but I do know that many games perform even better on Linux these days.
As a software engineer, I will tell you that to put game-specific optimizations in drivers seems like a horrifying practice that should never have become commonplace, and probably leads to piles of hacks and unmanageable complexity. I have doubts as to whether Mesa and/or the Linux kernel would accept such a thing in open-source drivers.
In the long run, we’re probably better off with clean, maintainable code. I’d rather have that than a few extra FPS any day.
Yea that's true, it's probably a mess to optimize for individual games. Depends how much of an impact it makes to have those optimiziations I guess.