Vulkan has effectively replaced OpenGL, and that means that AMD's new OpenGL optimisation will not impact any newly launched PC games.
That being said, these optimisation have forever addressed a weakness within AMD's graphics drivers, and that is a big deal.Īs mentioned before, OpenGL is not a commonly used API anymore. Practically no newly released games use the OpenGL graphics API, making the impact of AMD's new OpenGL optimisations limited in scope. Minecraft is an obvious example here, though classics like Wolfenstein: The New Order are also worth mentioning. While most modern PC games run on DirectX 12, Vulkan, or DirectX 11, OpenGL remains the only usable API for many popular games. In games like Minecraft (Java Edition), AMD has marketed performance gains of around 90%, almost doubling the game's framerate on AMD hardware.
With the release of AMD's new 22.7.1 GPU drivers, Radeon GPUs have recieved a huge boost to their OpenGL performance, significantly increasing the smoothness of classic OpenGL games.
