{"id":78288,"date":"2015-07-08T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78288"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:54:40","slug":"amd-is-moving-on-from-mantle-expect-all-optimisations-to-be-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/78288-amd-is-moving-on-from-mantle-expect-all-optimisations-to-be-halted","title":{"rendered":"AMD is moving on from Mantle: expect all optimisations to be halted"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world, thanks in no small part to an incredible push by Microsoft, is excited about DirectX 12.<\/p>\n

The next generation API grants low-level access to a PC\u2019s components, a greatly reduced driver overhead and a number of other improvements and innovations that promise almost console-like levels of efficiency for PC developers \u2013 that\u2019s some serious potential.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is doing more than just pushing Windows 10 and DirectX 12 through marketing channels, however; many high-profile developers and tech wizards have thrown their weight behind DirectX 12 and vouched for it.<\/p>\n

In fact, there are a number of DirectX 12 demonstrations that prove the API\u2019s worth, and AMD\u2019s own proprietary graphics API, Mantle<\/a>, has taken a hit as a result.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t all that long ago when many believed that Mantle would completely change the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Mantle<\/a>

The benefits of Mantle were never quite realised.<\/p><\/div>\n

In their review of AMD\u2019s latest Radeon wunderkind, the Radeon R9 Fury X, Anandtech<\/a> stated that AMD is halting further GPU optimisation for Mantle.<\/p>\n

In fact, GCN 1.2<\/a>, the latest revision of AMD\u2019s GPU microarchitecture, hasn\u2019t been refined for Mantle at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf particular note, the Mantle driver has not been optimized at all for GCN 1.2, which includes not just R9 Fury X, but R9 285, R9 380, and the Carrizo APU as well,\u201d says Anandtech.<\/p>\n

Mantle has slowly waned into irrelevancy since its initial announcement, and without support by triple-A titles, there really was no way Mantle was going to hold out.<\/p>\n

John Carmack, himself, suggested that Mantle would have no place in the GPU market without sustainability and longevity<\/a>, and he was right.<\/p>\n

\"Vulkan<\/a>

Vulkan looks to provide the cross platform compatibility Mantle simply couldn’t. Image courtesy of Khronos.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fortunately, Mantle wasn\u2019t a complete waste. It\u2019s been used in the development of the next generation OpenGL API, Vulkan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And as long as Microsoft is forced to compete with at least one other graphics initiative, the competition will keep DirectX APIs trucking along.<\/p>\n

For a complete overview of Vulkan, you can check out the API\u2019s PDF summary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: PC Gamer<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

More AMD news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

AMD\u2019s Radeon R9 Fury X and R9 390X: performance vs. price<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD punishing sites for \u2018negative coverage\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s Quantum PC is powered by Intel: go figure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for Vulkan to challenge DirectX for the graphics API crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":78290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1051,9711,14674,47,1879,1085,14672,11345,1969,1486],"class_list":["post-78288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-gcn","tag-gcn-1-2","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-core-next","tag-hardware-2","tag-low-leve-api","tag-mantle","tag-news-2","tag-radeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}