Bethesda News & Update: What Will Be the Future of the Company If They Collaborate with AMD?
AMD recently discussed the upcoming Vega GPU architecture at Game Developers Congress 2017 regarding their Capsaicin and Cream event. The company announced that its next-generation of graphic cards will be known as Radeon RX Vega after proceeding to the Radeon RX 500.
Radeon President Raja Koduri announced with Tech Radar that they have an extreme partnership with Bethesda that will optimize the game studio for their Vega and Ryzen. He added that the collaboration between the two companies is not just about branding and marketing, both companies have dedicated engineers and developers working to focus the leverage multiple cores, refining all new features in Radeon GPUs, and cleaning their optimizations.
Bethesda was recognized in gaming community, they are behind in some of the biggest franchise gaming such as "Fallout 3 and 4," Wolfenstein: The New Order," "Quake," "Dishonored," and "The Elder Scrolls" which has sold over 80 million copies; a big hit in the gaming world. The collaboration between Bethesda and AMD aimed to be a long-termed strategic partnership to boost the implementation of Vulkan; a low-level API that was developed by AMD's Mantle and other upcoming technologies including Ryzen and Vega, according to PC World.
As noted by a Kit guru from the statement of Raja Koduri, the collaboration of Bethesda and AMD is an excellent timing for the moment in the gaming industry as games demand rapid power from the current state of graphic architectures to offer detailed characters and gameplay into much higher resolutions, quality, and frame rate settings. He added that to work for these objectives independently will eventually challenge all of their game and graphic developers but working with collaboration makes the pace of the progress into exponentially rapid. Meanwhile, Vega will also be a part of another AMD collaboration, as mentioned earlier; this time is for LiquidSky which is a game streaming service that offers to use Vega tech to point out top-tier games for less powerful devices such as Windows laptops and Android smartphones.