Benefits
Develop applications with greater ease and efficiency with ADLX, featuring improved stability and maintenance, and more functionality than ADL.
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High standard of quality assurance from AMD. All ADLX functions and methods are extensively tested on a wide range of hardware to assure quality.
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Accelerated time-to-market. Simplified and cost-effective interfaces allow for accelerated customer software development.
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Forward and backward compatibility with AMD drivers. Significantly reduced field issues by implementing architecture built with compatibility checks and switches.
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Extended functionality and use case support. Expanded functionality over ADL, and inclusion of the latest control and monitoring features available for AMD hardware and drivers.
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Compatible with modern programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, etc. ADLX can be integrated with a larger selection of programming languages.
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Features |
ADLX |
ADL |
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Simple Interface |
✅ Intuitive C++ interfaces with methods |
❌ Inconvenient C-style function pointers |
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GPU & Display Enumeration |
✅ Intuitive representation |
❌ Complicated representation |
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Memory Management |
✅ Virtually leak-proof with reference-counted interfaces and smart pointers |
❌ Leak-prone with C-style dynamic memory management |
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Events Synchronization |
✅ Convenient ADLX events for all the features in ADLX |
❌ Limited events. Applications must implement the events manager |
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Support |
✅ Forward and backward compatibility with AMD drivers |
❌ Limited |
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Versioning |
✅ More interfaces |
❌ Alternate function pointers |
