In around 20 days, AMD will reveal more details about its low-level API, Mantle, during its Developers Summit event. And it seems that it will be worth the wait, as a lot of developers are currently praising this new API. Among those developers is Project CARS engineer programmer, who claimed that Mantle will offer 70-80% of next-gen console performance in terms of submitting draw calls. Continue reading pCARS developer: Mantle will offer 70-80% of next-gen console performance (regarding draw calls)→
A new set of beta drivers for AMD’s graphics cards has been leaked onto the Internet. Although there is no release notes at this moment, AMD users claim to have gained better performance in a number of benchmarking tools. Moreover, this driver seems to be working fine, meaning you won’t brick your GPUs if you install it. Still, we advice you to use these drivers at your own risk (the same thing applies to all beta drivers coming from the green team). Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA3 Drivers Leaked→
Nvidia’s G-Sync technology seems to be the next big thing according to both reporters and developers that attended the green team’s recent Montreal event. However, it seems that customers will have to rely solely on Nvidia’s GPUs in order to enjoy this new tech, as G-Sync won’t work with other GPUs in the foreseeable future. Continue reading Nvidia’s Tom Petersen: We don’t expect G-Sync to work with other GPUs anytime soon→
Earlier yesterday, John Carmack shared his thoughts on AMD’s Mantle. During Nvidia’s Montreal event, Carmack claimed that although he would be tempted to use Mantle, he would not do such a thing at this point. Carmack claimed that it’s not stupid – for AMD – to attempt something like that, however he believed that Sony and Microsoft would not embrace it. But why is Carmack against this new API? Continue reading John Carmack: Nvidia’s OpenGL extensions rival Mantle, 8GBs on consoles not a significant change→
AMD has released a new beta driver for its desktop GPUs. According to its release notes, this new driver adds compatibility support update for the new lineup of GPUs coming out this month. Moreover, Andrew D – Catalyst maker – claimed that these drivers also come with some improvements for Skyrim and Rome 2. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta1 Now Available→
Well, you gotta love AMD and its engineers. Mantle looks – in paper – amazing, however that’s not the only thing the red team is currently working on. According to Graham Sellers, OpenGL guy at AMD, the red team will be supporting this open API with some high performance extensions that will offer almost similar performance to AMD’s upcoming API, Mantle. Continue reading AMD Aims To Give OpenGL A Big Boost, “API Won’t Be The Bottleneck”→
Another day, another Mantle article. A couple of days ago, French website Hardware interviewed AMD’s Raja Koduri who shared some interesting information about the red team’s upcoming API. According to Raja, Microsoft was well aware of the existence of Mantle. Not only that, but AMD will continue working with Microsoft on all the latest versions of DirectX, just like they’ve been doing this whole time. Continue reading AMD clarifies: Mantle is not AMD’s CUDA, Microsoft was well aware of its existence→
