AMD distributes AMD Ryzen processors and Polaris and Vega graphics, among game developers
AMD is sending different video game developers kits with AMD Ryzen processors and Polaris and Vega graphics to optimize their games.
The Zen architecture, which brings AMD Ryzen processors to life, has been a competitive solution against Intel processors. These processors have the particularity of being modular, based on a set of CCX modules for each core. This has the advantage of allowing scalability in a simple way, but as a countermeasure to generate some performance problems and a special optimization is needed in games, to reduce losses at least. It seems that many developers are welcoming the first second generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper, so they can optimize their codes and get the most out of it.
AMD distributes the AMD Ryzen Threadripper for developers to optimize for these processors.
It seems that AMD wants to focus on the video game market and for this it is sending Ryzen / Radeon Care kits, with the idea of optimizing video games. Techland, the studio that developed Dying Light and Call of Juarez, has been one of those that has received these kits. These are based on Ryzen 2000 processors, specifically, two Ryzen 3 2200G APUs, two Ryzen 5 2400G APUs, three Ryzen 5, three Ryzen 7, and four Threadripper. Two XFX RX 580 and two Sapphire Pulse RX Vega 64 are also provided.
Croteam, on the other hand, developer of Serious Sam and The Talos Principle, have received the same mentioned pack. The developers of Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass would also have received a pack, but much earlier and at the E3 2018 exhibition, where there were a large number of enemies, they would have found company hardware.
This is fine, but this does not mean that AMD is neglecting the Ryzen Raven Ridge APUs that receive drivers once every three months. Perhaps the company is forgetting one of the basic aspects of optimization, which is the drivers and the APUs have been forgotten for weeks and months.
Source: OC3D
