AMD is hiring a CPU performance engineer to optimize its GPU drivers

[desprado]

AMD has been spending considerable time on the software side of its hardware game with technologies like HSA, Mantle, and the still fresh Omega drivers
But now it looks like it's time the company really spreads its wings when it comes to its Catalyst driver suite, with AMD hiring a CPU performance engineer to help them optimize their graphics drivers in CPU heavy gaming workloads. AMD has a few specific requirements for this engineer to join the team, where it has listed on his job description: "The responsibilities include analyzing CPU bound benchmarks and games to identify a variety of CPU bottlenecks in drivers, optimizing the drivers, and providing optimization actions to ISVs".

The job description continues: "The candidate will analyze new CPU architecture impact on driver performance and translate into actionable tasks. This position requires the candidate to collaborate with graphics and CPU architects at multi-sites across multiple graphics driver components".

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/43680...ance-engineer-optimize-gpu-drivers/index.html

 

[Phynaz]

Do you think they don't already have people doing this?

 

[96Firebird]

Is this because of their poor (compared to Nvidia) performance when CPU bound in some games? It has been talked about here, but always dismissed as nothing to really worry about. Maybe they are taking a serious look at it now...

 

[desprado]

Do you think they don't already have people doing this?

Than why they are advertising it?
Of course they dont have that guy that they are searching for.

 

[3DVagabond]

Do you think they don't already have people doing this?

This^^^

Is this because of their poor (compared to Nvidia) performance when CPU bound in some games? It has been talked about here, but always dismissed as nothing to really worry about. Maybe they are taking a serious look at it now...

AMD has obviously been working on CPU optimizations for their GPU's. nVidia talks about it more because they are countering against Mantle.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

This position has got to be to work on DX12 drivers with all the new CPU optimizations inherent to the new API.

 

[soccerballtux]

Is this because of their poor (compared to Nvidia) performance when CPU bound in some games? It has been talked about here, but always dismissed as nothing to really worry about. Maybe they are taking a serious look at it now...

it would be typical AMD to find out about it from the reviewers and then try to do a patch afterwords to improve, as opposed to, you know, rewriting the driver framework into something clean

 

[SolMiester]

Perhaps they are expanding the optimisation team?, at any rate, it will arguably, be some time before any improvements are deployed to consumers.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Do you think they don't already have people doing this?

^^This. Sites must be desperate for news I guess.

 

[loccothan]

"We’ve also covered the successful launch of the Catalyst Omega drivers. Which brought to the market the most comprehensive performance improvement and bug squashing effort we’ve seen from the company in a very long time.

It’s clear from the job description above that AMD is looking to significantly improve CPU performance in games. Not only through multi-threaded driver optimizations but also by working directly with ISVs (Independent software vendors) i.e game developers to develop and implement performance optimizations. It’s important to note that this is established common practice for hardware companies. AMD, Intel and Nvidia have all been doing this for years.
However what’s perhaps interesting in this particular instance is that even with the financial pressures that AMD has been going through recently, the company is still increasing software development R&D spending. And that’s certainly a welcomed sight especially when it comes to the hyper-competitive graphics space. We’ll be following this as it develops and we hope to be able to measure this progress once AMD launches its next generation Radeon 300 series graphics cards. "


Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-hiring-cpu-engineer-gpu-driver-optimization/#ixzz3SYXjr0yI

Great news
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[lyssword]

good news for amd, they are not giving up on their gfx. I have seen the benches where amd cards do poorly with weaker cpus, hopefully that will improve.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Than why they are advertising it?
Of course they dont have that guy that they are searching for.

My job posts positions that have people all the time. Most jobs consist of more than one person. Another possibility would be the person who was originally doing this role was terminated or promoted. Even another is that they have looked at this but never had a person who was specifically dedicated (100% sure their driver team would look into games where they stopped scaling and nvidia continued scaling.)

You see a job posting and make an assumption that the only possibility is that the position is brand new, but in reality there are a hundred reasonable explanations out there.

 

[Gloomy]

They probably need more hands to handle the three new drivers. (Mantle, glN and DX12). I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

[Noctifer616]

They probably need more hands to handle the three new drivers. (Mantle, glN and DX12). I wouldn't read too much into it.

Really? Aren't the drivers for the next gen API's really thin and do a lot less work than the drivers for current API's. There are also no driver optimizations for games since it's all handled by the application now.

I think it's for the current driver. Many games will still be DirectX 11 and will require driver updates. We won't see games exclusive to the new gem API's for quite some time.

 

[Smoblikat]

Hopefully this will level the playing field a little more.

I have always been a big fan of ATI video cards. Theyre cheaper than their NV counterparts, and still provide all the performance I need to play at 1080P.

 

[Gloomy]

Really? Aren't the drivers for the next gen API's really thin and do a lot less work than the drivers for current API's. There are also no driver optimizations for games since it's all handled by the application now.

I think it's for the current driver. Many games will still be DirectX 11 and will require driver updates. We won't see games exclusive to the new gem API's for quite some time.

Being thin and requiring no optimization are two different things.

The fact is that new APIs are more workload. Which require more work. And that means more people.

 

[Paul98]

This is one of the most idiotic and stupid "article" I have read in a while.

You will find driver optimization, and GPU architect job openings at NVidia, you will find software engineer jobs at Google. Job openings for the type of stuff that is done at that company, what a surprise.

 

[dacostafilipe]

Being thin and requiring no optimization are two different things.

The driver does less work (ex: managing memory) what again gives the dev less way to optimise. So, it should translate in less work required on a specific API

 

[Black Octagon]

This is one of the most idiotic and stupid "article" I have read in a while.

You will find driver optimization, and GPU architect job openings at NVidia, you will find software engineer jobs at Google. Job openings for the type of stuff that is done at that company, what a surprise.

Agreed, but what else do you expect when the original 'source' is WCCFTech? I'm sick of Tweaktown and others who should know better, constantly re-hashing what WCCFTech 'reports.'

For those interested in applying, the vacancy listing is here: https://www.amd.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=31326

 

[waffleironhead]

The real meat is here.
" The candidate will analyze new CPU architecture impact on driver performance and translate into actionable tasks."

 

[garagisti]

The real meat is here.
" The candidate will analyze new CPU architecture impact on driver performance and translate into actionable tasks."

Yes, could be more oriented towards their APUs where you have shared resources, and you do have to make the most of what you have.

@Paul
Yep, it is properly no news. All companies are constantly hiring.

 

[kawi6rr]

^^This. Sites must be desperate for news I guess.

Why is it inconceivable that AMD would hire more people and to look at expanding? But this is what we’ve come to expect from a clear AMD hater.

 

[kawi6rr]

Do you think they don't already have people doing this?

Seriously! AMD can’t look to hire more people without anti AMD fanboy remarks?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Why is it inconceivable that AMD would hire more people and to look at expanding? But this is what we’ve come to expect from a clear AMD hater.

You completely missed the point in an eager defence of a company.

If this was anything special out of the ordinary. Then we could most likely see page up and page down every day with new articles about random job listings at random companies. Because thats what it is, just another job in the crowd. Not saying its not relevant at all because its certainly is. Else they wouldnt look for one. But if you think this deserves thread and article attention, then what about the rest?

Why is this job listing any more important than all the others at AMD?

https://www.linkedin.com/job/amd/jobs/

Are you saying they are less relevant because they didnt get article space and its own thread?

Or can we conclude its messed up to create an article about a random job listing as some kind of breaking news?

 

[kawi6rr]

You completely missed the point in an eager defence of a company.

If this was anything special out of the ordinary. Then we could most likely see page up and page down every day with new articles about random job listings at random companies. Because thats what it is, just another job in the crowd. Not saying its not relevant at all because its certainly is. Else they wouldnt look for one. But if you think this deserves thread and article attention, then what about the rest?

Why is this job listing any more important than all the others at AMD?

https://www.linkedin.com/job/amd/jobs/

Are you saying they are less relevant because they didnt get article space and its own thread?

Or can we conclude its messed up to create an article about a random job listing as some kind of breaking news?

If it’s so insignificant then why waste your time even commenting on this thread except at an eager attempt to bash a company?