AMD announces a long-term strategic partnership with Bethesda

AMD has announced a long-term strategic partnership with Bethesda, the creators of The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Fallout and Dishonored to optimise their titles for 8-core CPUs and their upcoming Vega GPU architecture.  

Previously Bethesda worked heavily with Nvidia, with many of their titles having co-advertisements with Nvidia and Nvidia branded splash screens when their games launch, with DOOM 2016’s Vulkan support being announced at Nvidia’s GTX 1080 launch event. 

This means that moving forward, Bethesda will be working with AMD to ensure that their games work well on multi-threaded CPUs and take advantage of AMD’s new Vega architecture, though at this time it is unknown exactly what features the company plans to implement.   

Recently Bethesda has added Nvidia-only features to some of their games, like PhysX Flex in Fallout 4 and even created their own “Vault 1080” mod for the title. Now with AMD’s support, it is likely that the company will move to use more open source tools from AMD’s open source GPUOpen technologies. 

The first game that will be optimised for AMD under this new partnership will be Arkane Studio’s Prey, which is set to launch on May 5th. 

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