***Official AMD Mantle Thread***

[tommybhoy]

When are Greg, Andy et al going to apologise for constantly claiming Mantle would never go to Khronos, would never be open etc etc?

 

[tommybhoy]

Op updated:

Mantle Demos/Stress Test/Benchmarks

Ashes of the Singularity: Nitrous Engine

 

[tommybhoy]

Mantle users, are you looking forward to DirectX 12 and Vulkan? You should be.

Course I am, patiently waiting on all the Mantle ******* love child API's with great anticipation, until then I can simply fire up a Mantle title right now

 

[tommybhoy]

^
He knows that.

Does he say when it will become open or at least stop being evil proprietary software?

Baiting/trolling?

You know what's happening with Mantle.

 

[tommybhoy]

I don't know exactly, everything seems to be pretty vague. AMDMatt's post said it's not going away. Since AMD and it's customers seem to be so anti-proprietary I was just wondering when this would be made open for everyone.
I remember a lot of people on here saying it would be made open, even going as far a making bets, which they later changed their minds on after the deadline for 'going open' had past.

Since PhysX and GSync and everything is bad because it's restricted to Nvidia cards I was assuming that being an AMD product it wouldn't be proprietary. I just wondered when this would be? Or is it not happening and is proprietary ok now?

I was right then, clear skipping over the other part that Mantle based/evolved=Khronos=open, it was and still is baiting for a forum argument

 

[tommybhoy]

Looking like Mantle is the back end for their VR, it's not an underlying rule everything needs to go through DX=everyone else can use Khronos as the back end for anything too.

AMD achieved what they set out, made an api, handed it over for everyone=open-or are you saying they didn't hand it over to be open it up for everyone?

Handing it over and making it open for all doesn't mean they can't use a recognised branding for themselves.

Grats googly, job done, see you around.