A few years back, Intel was striking marketing deals with large game developers that included them giving away free copies of their compiler and support. It's u

A few years back, Intel was striking marketing deals with large game developers that included them giving away free copies of their compiler and support. It's unclear how prevalent that was, though there were a few titles with an Intel splash logo that were part of this. This is often assumed to be the cause of the difference of performances between AMD and Intel CPUs in games btw, and while that can definitely come into it, it's not always correct. Sometimes the engines just don't know about the CPUs and treat them like the previous generation (like at Ryzen launch where some games ignored SMT on those), sometimes the devs only tested on one arch, or sometimes it's some extra library that makes incorrect assumptions. Interesting read on the topic with Cyberpunk : https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/12/13/cyberpunk-2077-and-amd-cpus/ https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2020/12/13/cyberpunk-2077-...