AMD Developer Summit

[melmac]

Well, for anyone that is interested, the AMD developers summit is due to start today. I was reading over the agenda and session timetable. The First session about mantle is happening tomorrow from 10-10:45am PST. Then they are having a few talks about the true audio. The very last thing on Wednesday Oxide is going to talk more about Mantle.

Should be an enlightening few days What really intrigues me the most is how much time they are spending on talking about audio. There seems to be more sessions devoted to that than to mantle.

See here

http://developer.amd.com/apu/home/agenda-sessions/

PS. I wrote about this in the other mantle thread, but, it probably deserves it's own thread.

 

[LtMatt]

Looking forward to it. I'm excited about the prospect of mantle and what it will bring for us.

 

[melmac]

Well, the bit I find most interesting is that it seems it will solve the problem of been CPU bound entirely. But will have to wait until Thursday morning to see exactly what the story is.

I hate waiting!!

 

[drunkenmaster]

A lot more cpu overhead from lots of memory copying which goes on will also be avoided by having unified memory, which coincidentally the 290/290x support. Though, will certainly be interesting to see how it works. When, how and what hardware. I assume it will require a windows update(and we know how quickly MS help to support AMD features ), AMD HSA compatible CPU(Kaveri or newer most likely) and 290x or newer.

Nvidia have done a lot of work for workstation/compute/server side to enable multiple nvidia gpu's to talk to each other/access memory without having to go through the CPU for each interaction, it saves wasting a lot of bandwidth and cpu clocks controlling what are mostly just memory copies in and out of main system memory.

I think unified memory + mantle should show some overall decent gains. I'm certainly interested to see hopefully in several months, some comparisons between the various setups, IE using a DX game how much does unified memory system gain over normal, using Mantle without a unified memory system, how much does it gain, both together, how much gain is there. Large bottle necks in current PC API's and some pretty huge bottlenecks from not having unified memory. Could be some very nice gains for AMD in the near future.

 

[Orangey]

I assume it will require a AMD CPU