AMD to consolize PC gaming with Mantle API...in a good way

"Battlefield 4 will be the first title to use Mantle, with the technology coming through a free update in December. Mantle brings greater control of the GPU and CPU to game developers, especially in the memory department, which will allow games to harness the full potential of graphics cards. This model will be more similar to what is found on consoles, where developers have huge control over what hardware they use in their games."

http://www.techspot.com/news/54134-amd-launches-mantle-api-to-optimize-pc-gpu-performance.html

So yeah this is HUGE and eliminates one of the few advantages consoles have over PC.    Before PC gamers achieved better results through brute force.  Your hardware got the most out of the game.  Now with mantle it will be just like console where the software (game) will be getting the most out of your hardware.  This is a pretty big deal for PC.  PC is already miles ahead in terms of power to consoles (of any generatrion) and now with Mantle games will even look and run that much better than their console counterparts because devs will finally be able to maximize PC hardware.  I wonder what Nvidia is going to do about this.  They can't just simply come out with more powerful cards now.  They have to show some new software solutions or they will get left behind.   Also yes this does make a gaming rig that much more powerful than a console but already knew this. 

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

lilnazar

More like kicking the Console community in the balls.

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

lilnazar

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

jhonMalcovich

More like kicking the Console community in the balls.

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

clyde46

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lilnazar"]

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

lilnazar

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lilnazar"]

Nice, even PC developers are joining the Console community.

lilnazar

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lilnazar"]I know... It's so sad to see PC devs need money ASAP. I guess their earnings from PC gaming community isn't satisfying them.lilnazar

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lilnazar"]I know... It's so sad to see PC devs need money ASAP. I guess their earnings from PC gaming community isn't satisfying them.lilnazar

You missunderstand the facts.

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lilnazar"]Just stating the facts. No need to be angry at me.lilnazar

Another event to chronicle on the ongoing decimation of consoles.

That is interesting, but, "nine times more draw calls per second than other APIs" is a very bold claim, and I'll wait for some independant benchmarks to see how much truth there is to it.

Furthermore, if this stays AMD exclusive, it'll meet the same fate as PhysX, never being able to reach its full potential, since obviously, a dev can't build a game around a feature availible only to a portion of their userbase. It can only be used to compliment the game in smaller ways having minimal effect on your gaming experience.

I know... It's so sad to see PC devs need money ASAP. I guess their earnings from PC gaming community isn't satisfying them.lilnazar

I have no idea how you could've reached that conclusion going only by the article... oh, right, no one reads the articles on SW! :P

TC, your thread title seriously sucks!

I doubt dev will waste time and resource with this. They optimize to most common spec and move on. They are more worry about getting their game to run on 8 year old console because blockbuster title will sell more on them.Mr-Kutaragi

[QUOTE="Mr-Kutaragi"]I doubt dev will waste time and resource with this. They optimize to most common spec and move on. They are more worry about getting their game to run on 8 year old console because blockbuster title will sell more on them.jhonMalcovich

Doh. Another thread beat you by a few minutes. 

Sorry.