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AMD : Public Mantle SDK Coming This Year – Nvidia And Intel Can Use It For Free
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Once DX12 is here it will be interesting to see the comparisons between them, in what they do, how they do it and what makes them tick.
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Neither Intel or Nvidia want it.
It hasnt even made it out of beta!
It was more a proof of concept than anything else.
It hasnt even made it out of beta!
It was more a proof of concept than anything else.
Neither Intel or Nvidia want it.
It hasnt even made it out of beta!
It was more a proof of concept than anything else.
Intel has shown interest according to this article
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2365909/intel-approached-amd-about-access-to-mantle.html
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Again I love how AMD do this, They share everything with the market yet Nvidia won't help make things like HBAO+, TXAA, Physx etc...Multiplatform, Not good for innovation and moving forward. *Nvidia user BTW*
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I can see Mantle existing post DX12, only becuase AMD will pay developers to put it in their games.
Marketing tactic.
Marketing tactic.
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You have a point. But at the moment, I cant see why anyone would buy an AMD card. Too many AAA games coming out which are Game wWrks.
Or because it's a great way to enable Ultra options on AMD platform? From what we have seen the added cost of implementing Mantle alongside DX is acceptable for large studios who differentiate in the marketplace with effects and fidelity.
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Suppose so. But if you can achive the same thing with DX12 and be cross platform?
Like Star Citizen and every Frostbite engine based game? lol.
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One single engine. And at the moment Mantle supported games are about what 5?
And Plants vs zombies doesnt count!
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Open standards is great because it benefits us all. It probably helps AMDs image as 'innovative' or just 'the good guys'.
Thing is though between a card that has all these open source features and a card which has all the same open source feaures plus some proprietry features, if they were the same price / performance, which would you buy?
I don't buy a chocolate bar because it contains fair trade chocolate, I just go buy the tastiest chocolate bar.
Thing is though between a card that has all these open source features and a card which has all the same open source feaures plus some proprietry features, if they were the same price / performance, which would you buy?
I don't buy a chocolate bar because it contains fair trade chocolate, I just go buy the tastiest chocolate bar.
One single engine. And at the moment Mantle supported games are about what 5?
And Plants vs zombies doesnt count!
Each to their own. Most games I want in the future are Frostbite based and I will be pumping in hundreds of hours to Star Citizen, that's why I chose my 290 over a 780.
Yea that's true and some companies like to profit in different ways. Nvidia have been know to milk the hell out of their customers, where as AMD just like to make a decent tidy profit that doesn't cost you your kidney.
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Aaa
Star citizen is also going to support DX12, i bought the same cards the CEO has in his rig
Star citizen is also going to support DX12, i bought the same cards the CEO has in his rig
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Yea that's true and some companies like to profit in different ways. Nvidia have been know to milk the hell out of their customers, where as AMD just like to make a decent tidy profit that doesn't cost you your kidney.
That would explain why they've been making heavy losses for years then
One single engine. And at the moment Mantle supported games are about what 5?
And Plants vs zombies doesnt count!
Frostbite engine
Cryengine
nitrous engine from oxide
rebellion's engine (forgot what it's called)
These have all adopted mantle. Not a bad start to say it's a brand new API really. a lot of game devs are getting behind it. Where as before only DX was the main option.
That would explain why they've been making heavy losses for years then
Can you show me this, iv'e not seen these "heavy losses for years" you claim.
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