But when OpenGL was king, AMD struggled mightily.'
'Nowadays with Vulkan and D3D11/12 in Dolphin, the playing field has leveled out a lot. 'One of the reasons that Nvidia has given us a smoother experience in general is that the drivers were much more efficient at doing the things we needed to do, which lowered CPU overhead,' JMC4789 says. The graphics API a game or emulator uses can make a big difference in performance, too. Emulators often ask your graphics card to do things that a PC game typically wouldn't, which can reveal quirks, bugs, and inefficiencies in graphics card drivers that you'd never run into otherwise.
