| Pemalite said: I just don't see the issues you have with OpenGL and Radeon pre-GCN. I have been using ATI/AMD for decades and it's always been usable... Sure performance wasn't as great as nVidia, but overall AMD's GPU's still did well. |
A lot of remaining driver bugs because there's a point where developers will stop working around them which is why many currently maintained open-source project using OpenGL don't target them anymore ...
| Pemalite said:
Yeah. I wouldn't discount Samsung out until they actually make an official announcement... Nor would I be willing to engage in hypothetical's/conspiracy theories on whether Samsung is abandoning their own GPU efforts or not. |
I don't expect them to make an official announcement after 7+ years of no results ...
Samsung likely already threw in the towel judging from AMD's PR where they said that Samsung is specifically licensing their RDNA 'architecture' ...
| Pemalite said:
Hence my previous statement of Adreno deviating from the current Radeon paradigm, but retaining some core similarities. |
I don't think AMD are going to be following Nvidia in trying to make their GPUs specifically more efficient for mobile users. AMD's only job is to meet design goals, not power targets for their customers since they have the liberty of being able to down clock ...
In saying that AMD's main advantages are is that they prioritize advanced feature sets and simple drivers which is a godsend over other mobile Android graphics vendors ...
| Pemalite said:
I am not saying that ARM is going to abandon their GPU efforts, just not invest as much time and resources into developing their graphics solutions. |
That'd be a really bad idea to just let Qualcomm monopolize the mobile chipset market ...
| Pemalite said:
Well no. They don't have to do anything. They may leave that responsibility to Samsung. |
Samsung don't even make their own graphics drivers and in fact are currently both being supplied from ARM and Qualcomm so they don't have much to lose to switching to AMD in this regard ...
AMD are probably going to have to make the drivers but that's OK since they're getting other contributors like Google, Red Hat, and Valve for their open-source efforts ...
