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