zarx said:
Remains to be seen, I have my doubts but I wouldn't write Valve off just yet. It was more a counterpoint to the guys post, considering that Nvidia have aparently been working with Valve to the point of having actual Nvidia engineers working at Valve kinda counters the Steammachines+AMD equals trouble for Nvidia angle. Clearly Nvidia already have their foot firmly in that door. These are strange and exiting times with a lot of different factors and forces. It will be a few years before we see how it all shakes out. There are just so many unknowns right now, and there are major players that haven't really shown their hand yet. We will need to see benchmarks prices and see how many developers and games support what. |
Some how I doubt using the mantle api for nvidia will be useful, infact I could see nvidia cards having less performance on it than they would be on DX11 because this api was made to specifically expose amd's gcn capabilites. Then there is the possibility of AMD playing dirty such as trying to make mantle exclusive to their own cards like nvidia does for cuda. It could happen seeing as how amd owns the api and could instantly lock out nvidia but I expect better integrity from amd than nvidia at this point. I don't think amd will throw away the gcn arhitecture for a very long time seeing as how they need it to support hUMA and beyond. Somehow I've got a bad feeling how this will end up for nvidia seeing as how amd has about 10 years to leverage the support it needs for this api to become massive.
