AMD is giving away a large amount of Ryzen and Radeon to game developers to improve game performance



AMD is working to provide its products to game developers. This is based on the lessons we learned immediately after the highly successful release of Ryzen.

AMD is sending Ryzen/Radeon care packages to game developers | OC3D News

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AMD released Ryzen 7 , the first CPU to adopt the Zen microarchitecture, in March 2017. The 1st generation Ryzen was the trigger for AMD's dramatic revival , which had been smoldering for many years due to a lack of performance competition with rival Intel, but it was not able to fully demonstrate its high performance immediately after its release. I had this problem. This was due to lack of optimization on the software side.

The Zen architecture had a fundamentally different design from existing architectures, such as integrating an integer arithmetic unit and a floating point arithmetic unit for each CPU core, so most professional software and game titles were not compatible at the time of release. However, it can't be helped that AMD's support for Ryzen was delayed while software developers devoted most of their development resources to support Intel CPUs, which overwhelmingly dominate the market with their high performance. That was it.

Therefore, in order to take full advantage of Ryzen's high performance, ``optimization'' work was continued on the software side to accommodate Zen's design, and performance has been steadily improved since then. As a result, the Zen architecture's strengths began to emerge as the software became more compatible, with performance improvements of more than 2,000 times achieved for ZBrush 's Pixologic Light workload.



AMD sent 300 Ryzen systems to software developers in April 2017 because they wanted more software to be optimized for Ryzen. By the end of 2017, a total of over 1000 Ryzen system machines were provided to developers.

In 2018, AMD released the first Ryzen APU (CPU with built-in GPU) as a new microarchitecture ``Zen +'', and then the 2nd generation Ryzen series was released for mainstream use. With the 2nd generation Ryzen, AMD has been providing products to software developers from an early stage in order to avoid repeating the same path as the 1st generation. In particular, recently it seems that they are offering AMD systems as a set, mainly to game developers, in order to encourage optimization for AMD products, including not only the Ryzen series but also AMD's graphic board 'Radeon' series. .

In May 2018, Flying Wild Hog, the developer behind Shadow Warrior 2 , reported on Twitter that Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs had been sent to him by AMD.




Croteam, known for developing `` Serious Sam '' and `` The Talos Principle ,'' received a large amount of 2nd generation Ryzen.




Techland, which develops `` Call of Juarez '' and `` Dying Light ,'' has also acquired a large amount of `` RadeonRX Vega '' along with the 2nd generation Ryzen.




Mark Campbell of OC3D News said, ``Many game developers know that AMD's Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs are likely to be used in next-generation game consoles developed by Sony and Microsoft.'' It is assumed that AMD is steadily building a foothold in the huge gaming market, not only for PCs but also for consoles.

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