Advanced Micro Devices made a big press splash when they won all three major game console platforms. Their presence inside the Microsoft Xbox One, Sony PS4 and Nintendo Wii U has benefited the company financially at the operating income level and has governed how they design their future GPUs. As Advanced Micro Devices has remained with the GCN architecture, present inside of all three consoles, it would seem that Advanced Micro Devices would have had a built-in an advantage into their GPUs for the PC gaming space. You see, the X86 CPU instruction is the same and platforms also share APIs and tools more than ever. This advantage has been touted by the company for quite some time now, but they have been challenged to transfer the benefits of these design wins to the PC gaming space. With AMD’s new feature called “Shader Intrinsic Functions”, a new feature pulled directly from the console space, this could change.

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