AMD's Vega Frontier Edition was a release that seemingly left most users either scratching their heads in bewilderment or - more specifically - disappointed. Some of this disappointment seemed to stem from a desire to see the long-awaited RX Vega consumer graphics card performance in the wild - or at least snagging a preview of it. Alas, the Frontier Edition's gaming performance was a disappointment when one considers the expected performance of AMD's underlying hardware - 4096 Stream processors and 16 GB of HBM2 memory - as well as the fact that this is AMD's first high-performance architecture since the Fury line of graphics cards. But to be fair to AMD, they did warn us - the Frontier Edition isn't the right graphics card for gamers.One of the points of contention for this new release was that AMD delivered a graphics card that straddled the prosumer equation - offering both Pro drivers for professional workloads, and a Gaming Mode which should allow developers to seamlessly jump from development mode to testing mode through a driver toggle. However, when used at launch of the Frontier Edition - and even now - this toggle is little more than a dud. Mostly, what it does is remove the Wattman control panel.Apparently, there was a lot of misinformation regarding this toggle mode - according to AMD (which has its own blame in the misinformation equation), it's not meant to be a magical, performance-boosting button all in itself. It's really just a way for developers to have access to consumer driver updates (which are launched much more frequently than professional ones) for the latest games. It appears that the Frontier Edition's toggle is there to enable prosumers to have access to two driver packages at the same time - the latest consumer drivers, and the latest, albeit probably older and less flexible - pro drivers. This enables developers to have access to same driver optimizations as general consumers up to the point where the professional drivers are updated with those same optimizations. So while yes, there may be a "magical" increase in gaming performance due to consumer driver package specific improvements, these scenarios will be the exception to the norm. As such, the "Gaming" and "Pro" mode toggle isn't a placeholder, according to AMD. It's just been misunderstood from all the marketing material AMD put out there for the Frontier Edition's launch.