AMD Mantle API

InsanityFlea · March 23, 2014, 11:01am

Crytek (cryengine 3, Crysis series) have now also joined forces with AMD and adopting mantle into their engine.

InsanityFlea · June 27, 2014, 10:12am

What mantle does for AMD CPU users:

InsanityFlea · December 9, 2014, 5:51pm

whoo hooo!

iNgeon · February 19, 2015, 6:26pm

InsanityFlea · February 20, 2015, 6:49am

You know that the base of DX12 is mantle
AMD has been working with MS for DX12

Mission accomplished. Someone need to start a fire under their bums.

teejo · March 4, 2015, 11:35am

AMD has discontinued Mantle.

http://community.amd.com/community/amd-blogs/amd-gaming/blog/2015/03/02/on-apis-and-the-future-of-mantle

InsanityFlea · March 4, 2015, 12:24pm

Was to be expected. It’s now called DX12

InsanityFlea · March 5, 2015, 3:32pm

and in another twist:

AMD’s Mantle Lives On In Vulkan – Lays The Foundation For The Next OpenGL

Read more: http://wccftech.com/mantle-vulkan-amd/#ixzz3TWeiJ9D8

So not only was it a base in DX12 but in OGL too. Pretty well done AMD.

iNgeon · March 26, 2015, 4:33pm

Compare DirectX 12, DirectX 11 and Mantle with the new API Overhead Feature Test, available in 3DMark Advanced Edition and 3DMark Professional Edition.

edit: Updated Quick test: DirectX 12 API Overhead Benchmark results