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Title: DX11? OpenGL? Pfft...AMD announces Mantle API
Post by: idolminds on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 04:53:09 PM

I'm so confused! (http://www.techspot.com/news/54134-amd-launches-mantle-api-to-optimize-pc-gpu-performance.html)

Apparently open so nvidia wont be left out, but it will probably take time to implement. I don't really know what to make of this...we need to hear from The Carmack!

Title: Re: DX11? OpenGL? Pfft...AMD announces Mantle API
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 05:05:30 PM

Whoa, whoa - WTF is going on here in the PC gaming world?

It's like WAR is being brought towards Microsoft on all fronts:
Valve has Steam OS aiming at Windows OS + SteamMachines aimed at XBox consoles;
and now Mantle API is aiming at DirectX API.

Title: Re: DX11? OpenGL? Pfft...AMD announces Mantle API
Post by: MysterD on Monday, July 06, 2015, 05:24:44 PM

Bluesnews -> AMD stops optimizations on Mantle. (http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=163063)

Title: Re: DX11? OpenGL? Pfft...AMD announces Mantle API
Post by: idolminds on Monday, July 06, 2015, 10:04:02 PM

That was short lived.

Title: Re: DX11? OpenGL? Pfft...AMD announces Mantle API
Post by: MysterD on Monday, July 06, 2015, 10:39:30 PM

Quote from: idolminds on Monday, July 06, 2015, 10:04:02 PM

That was short lived.

Yep.

Basically, DX12 + Vulkan (Next-Gen Open GL) (http://anandtech.com/show/9038/next-generation-opengl-becomes-vulkan-additional-details-released) are both low-level API's - and they're going to be doing similar things that Mantle was doing + attempting.
Hell, Vulkan even has some Mantle code with it. (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-review/12)