AMD unveils 'Mantle' API to optimize GPU performance - Debute with BF4

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zarx said:

fatslob-:O said:

It may not be an nvidia killing move but I think It could be much worse such as amd trying to get a monopoly on the whole dGPU market. 

They will need a lot more than this if they want to push Nvidia out of the market. Nvidia are pushing some of the highest profit margins they have ever had at the moment. They have a lot of room to fire back if this takes off, which will be good for everyone as that will mean cheaper prices (or horrible if we end up with competing prepriatary APIs). We still don't know how much of a real world performance advanatage that this API will actually offer. And while most games will have DX/OpenGL support only a handful are going to have support for Mantle, most likely a select bunch of Gaming Evolved titles.

This move could also spark MS and the Kronus group into action to revamp their own APIs.

It's true that they will need alot more to push nvidia out so they have more things to endorse other developers to impliment.