07-14-2016, 06:23 AM
Vulkan is the API closest to mantle. It's so close that it looks so similar you could be fooled by just looking at the code.
Not sure what nvidia would do but we do have examples of mantle in the past, nvidia was able to match and surpass what amd could achieve. So, I dont think they will be helpless.
But still, I am pretty sure that amd has a lot more to gain, it's their hardware that prompted them to come up with mantle. Nvidia will have to let go some of their secrets or go and work closely with the games that they want the best results from.
We are talking about completely different designs, architectures that work completely different, and rhe results of this API which was based on mantle...which, it is based on GCN.
It shouldn't be a surprise that GCN gets a bigger boost, vulkan is very very close to mantle
Nvidia will have to let go of their close secrets to have a low level API take advantage of their architectures the same way. I am not sure they are tasty to do that yet.
Not sure what nvidia would do but we do have examples of mantle in the past, nvidia was able to match and surpass what amd could achieve. So, I dont think they will be helpless.
But still, I am pretty sure that amd has a lot more to gain, it's their hardware that prompted them to come up with mantle. Nvidia will have to let go some of their secrets or go and work closely with the games that they want the best results from.
We are talking about completely different designs, architectures that work completely different, and rhe results of this API which was based on mantle...which, it is based on GCN.
It shouldn't be a surprise that GCN gets a bigger boost, vulkan is very very close to mantle
Nvidia will have to let go of their close secrets to have a low level API take advantage of their architectures the same way. I am not sure they are tasty to do that yet.