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AMD announces GPUOpen - Open Sourced Gaming Development

I wonder when the paper launch will be?

As much as it's great that they're sharing the love, with all the financial troubles they're having maybe the constant flow of open source stuff they're chucking out should be stemmed slightly and they charge for something they do other than GPUs?
 
Cooper said:
They love their slides do AMD...I remember the nice flash Mantle ones, was going to be the future.
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And it still is for amd, Mantle kick started a lot of things. Vulkan API got a head start, and mantle is also the backend for LiquidVR.

No matter how you look at it mantle is still a thing.
 
ltron said:
This is great news, Richard Huddy mentioned during a speech that he was going to go into a meeting to discuss this very idea with management at least a year ago. I'm pleased to see this is going ahead as I thought it had been shelved.

Lots of positive news from the new Radeon Technologies Group recently, let's hope we can see all these things in action soon as Nvidia needs competition (almost every recent game uses gameworks).
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Indeed good news, though only if it quickly gains traction and turns into reality.

Hopefully others will see the approach AMD is taking with Freesync and GPUOpen - free open source solutions, instead of the locked down royalty approach their competition have.
 
The idea itself is good, maybe the devs will make use of it, and it cuts back the number of GW games.
 
AMD, where ideas go to die. I cant wait till they have 60FPS lol, and this as a feature for buying AMD and most likely branded onto the box as a feature of buying their cards lol.
 
Seems a good idea to me. Now let's see if the people who need to buy into it actually do and it becomes a good standard going forward, or if it doesn't gain traction then AMD can discontinue it and move onto the next idea to find one that does snowball.

A company coming up with ideas and initiatives is always a good idea, provided they don't tether themselves to it and can remain flexible enough to move to the next idea as and when it's the best thing to do.
 
If it's truly used by devs to submit their code then it should really expand on stuff that Gameworks does.
It'll be cool if you could go to Github and get the library for doing for example TressFX, improve it and then re-submit it for others to use.
 
It's all well and good AMD making this all essentially free to use, they don't have the clout Nvidia have when it comes to infecting software with their equally dire ideas. Atleast Nvidia will probably send people to help you implement their trash on your triple A game, AMD lack the resources to do this, so your basically on your own, which means when it fails to work, and it will, your on your own. So how soon before people abandon it in favour of zoned th they can actually get support on?

This unfortunately is another one of AMDs brilliant ideas that will never ever take off, just another in a long line of broken promises and lies to be fair.

Atleast they are aiming for the stars I guess. It's a sad state in the gpu market currently, one team will promise you the earth and deliver something woefully short, the other team will deliver you performance at a massive premium, will also lie to you about their hardware, force their software on you and underhandedly cripple the opposition to make themselves look better.

Not sure what's worse, buying into the day dreamers or supporting the corporation that only cares about prising more cash out of your pocket and that's it
 
SiDeards73 said:
It's all well and good AMD making this all essentially free to use, they don't have the clout Nvidia have when it comes to infecting software with their equally dire ideas. Atleast Nvidia will probably send people to help you implement their trash on your triple A game, AMD lack the resources to do this, so your basically on your own, which means when it fails to work, and it will, your on your own. So how soon before people abandon it in favour of zoned th they can actually get support on?

This unfortunately is another one of AMDs brilliant ideas that will never ever take off, just another in a long line of broken promises and lies to be fair.

Atleast they are aiming for the stars I guess. It's a sad state in the gpu market currently, one team will promise you the earth and deliver something woefully short, the other team will deliver you performance at a massive premium, will also lie to you about their hardware, force their software on you and underhandedly cripple the opposition to make themselves look better.

Not sure what's worse, buying into the day dreamers or supporting the corporation that only cares about prising more cash out of your pocket and that's it
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Haha. Well said. Thing is, if AMD are gone then Nvidia will only get worse.

I am highly unlikely to pay silly prices that Nvidia would want. Would just have to adjust and buy once cards have done most of their depreciating which is usually in the second hand market.

new boy said:
Its going to be a developers dream!
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lol :D
 
LambChop said:
AMD, where ideas go to die. I cant wait till they have 60FPS lol, and this as a feature for buying AMD and most likely branded onto the box as a feature of buying their cards lol.
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NVIDIA, where 970's and 980's go to get their asses kicked by 4 year old AMD architecture. :p

Die....nope don't think so.

Not quite sure what you mean by "I can't wait till they have 60FPS LOL" as my Fury smashes well over 60 on most games with ultra settings.

It seems to me that RTG under Koduri has looked back on how things used to be done and is determined to right the issues of the past and I am sure they will do their utmost to succeed. Whether they will, only time will tell.

But as others have said....interesting times ahead indeed.
:)
 
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