So, is Mantle confirmed for Elite Dangerous?
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Maybe there are some kind of negotiations between AMD and FD 
What is mantle?
Starting to wonder if I should have got a R9 290x instead of the GTX 780.
I wonder how mantle handles Oculus Rift performance wise.
I wonder how mantle handles Oculus Rift performance wise.
First I ever heard of it!
In a nutshell it looks like a way to get good graphics running faster by making it easier for developers to utilise multicore GPUs. Good stuff
The interesting thing is that AMD didn't categorically rule out that other architectures and vendors could use the interface, and there have been rumors about Intel showing interest in the technology.
nvidia are, IMAO, the rather "special" oddball vendor in that they love to push proprietary lock-ins that can only run on their hardware (cf. CUDA, PhysX, G-sync) and I don't see them supporting it, but in the long run it will either be all DirectX (DX12 seems to be aiming in the same direction as Mantle, reducing overhead and making things more parallel) or that and something else that's not OpenGL, with Mantle being the only real visible contender.
Let me google that for you
Basically it's a better alternative to DirectX but it's only for AMD GCN GPUs
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Is that right? I thought it didn't have anything to do with specific CPUs? Your Kaveri is CPU and GPU. The equivalent intel part would using intel integrated graphics, so that wouldn't work by itself. But I thought it would work with an Intel CPU and a discrete AMD GPU.
It does, I have an AMD GPU and a Intel CPU and Mantle works on it.
Mantle is GPU specific as it only works on GCN GPUs
It doesn't matter what CPU you have.
Where it helps out best though is if you are CPU limited as it reduces the overhead on the CPU.
If you are not CPU limited/bottlenecked Mantle has less of a performance boost.
Thus is works better on crappier AMD CPUs than it does on Super Duper Intel CPUs.
Well technically an APU and I will also have a discrete GPU (270x or better). In certain tasks mantle helps out quite a bit ( gaming, video processing, etc) to bring an AMD APU closer to parity with Intel chips in the same task. By what I have seen only intense number crunching ( simulations basically ) do not gain much from mantle but considering I am primarily a gamer with a side helping of enthusiast level video editing and what number crunching I do require wouldn't stress a 60nm Intel chip ( Origin experimental data crunching and processing ) so a flat upgrade over the 7850k with the 270x would be a Intel CPU around twice the price and there is no need for it personally .
I have never heard a developer not rage over OGL while trying to use it
Apparently the drivers are hugely divergent in supported features and their little bugs therein.In BF4 Mantle gave quite some FPS improvments up to 50 % or more. But Im still getting random stutters with Mantle enabled, which makes the game unplayable.
Ive got an I5 4670K paired with a 7870 2GB. Elite is giving me 60 fps+ all the time, not sure if Mantle is even needed here. It could be interesting for the planetary stuff and the walk around expansions tho.
Ive got an I5 4670K paired with a 7870 2GB. Elite is giving me 60 fps+ all the time, not sure if Mantle is even needed here. It could be interesting for the planetary stuff and the walk around expansions tho.
Depends on config, by what I know they've been improving it quite a bit since Feb and March but word of warning : nascent tech is always gonna be buggy until it gets a few solid iterations, Nvidia for example lost quite a few GPUs due to a driver/game bug with EVE-Online's CQ back when it launched in 2011 ( pretty sure the fried cards were also of the newest generation at that time too, though this is friend of a friend stuff so grain of salt required ).