Interesting Mantle API article.

[Cosmos]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/...rformance-alternative-to-direct3d-and-opengl/

 

[jabokai]

Thanks for the link.

I'd suggest that Mantle is a no-brainer for ED. Seeing as they're planning on selling Cobra as a development tool it really should be supporting game changers like this. Yes, it's somewhat proprietary (being AMD only) but developers wanting to build games and push selling points like "+50% frames per second on AMD GPU machines" would surely be keen on support for it.

 

[Tharsys]

This is not only matter of more fps. Mantle also allow to have much more (even ten times more) objects, without degrading performance, like we can see in Star Swarm demo. This should be great thing for space sim game.