AMD Hiring CPU Performance Engineer For Graphics Driver Optimization

[MetroP]

AMD has been aggressively working towards improving their drivers for the past couple of years. The culmination of that effort was the Catalyst Omega drivers released last year. Which introduced the most comprehensive set of performance optimizations and bug fixes we've seen from the company in a very long time.

The company isn't stopping there either. AMD just put up a new job listing in which a CPU Performance Engineer is being sought after to introduce more CPU centric performance optimizations.

 

 

We are looking for a CPU performance engineer working with highly talented 3D graphics driver developers to optimize graphics drivers. 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 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.
Qualifications and skills
•Must hold a B.S or higher degree in Computer Science/Engineering
•Strong programming skills in C and C++ with in depth knowledge of assembly code
•Have 5+ years of CPU performance tuning and optimization experience
•Familiar with multiprocessing and multi-thread programing
•Understand CPU and computer system architecture
•Experience on AMD CPUs, 3D graphic driver development, Windows OS memory management, CPU ASIC design/debug, and performance tools like CodeXL is a big plus
•Ability to communicate, cooperate, and thrive in a team environment

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[Zeke]

Apparently they've realized "MOAR CORES" policy doesn't work well

[Laputacake]

Apparently they've realized "MOAR CORES" policy doesn't work well

[Thecrazyswede]

Apparently they've realized "MOAR CORES" policy doesn't work well

 

Some stuff loves MOOAR CORES while some dont.

[Opcode]

More good news. Jim Keller is working on their next x86 core and now their looking to make performance optimizations to the GPU drivers. 2016 may be a huge turn around point for AMD if things go according to plan.

[qwertywarrior]

after looking at DX12 vs DX11 from anand it seems that in dx11 for some reason AMD uses more CPU % than Nvidia

i never really thought that there was a difference until recently

 

with DX12 it seems AMD and Nvidia are on par when it came to CPU% though

[azurezeed]

yes, AMD is doing things right

[Nielips]

Can we get more funny pictures like this in future, I much prefer it to butt hurt people argueing.

[Razarza]

Can we get more funny pictures like this in future, I much prefer it to butt hurt people argueing.

Maybe if they were under spoilers, otherwise they are just as annoying.

[The Benjamins]

 

But that car does not have a lot of power.

[Laputacake]

But that car does not have a lot of power.

Exactley, thats why Clarkson wants more power

[DildorTheDecent]

I hope that someday AMD really takes Intel on again. 

 

Things would get very exciting. 

[Fetzie]

But that car does not have a lot of power.

 

It has a better power to weight ratio than pretty much any other car on the market though. Motorbike performance, but it has 4 wheels so it doesn't fall over.

[Nup]

Woot! going in the right direction, that's for sure