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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I agree, graphic drivers must be a pain to work with. And now AMD goes and adds another kind of drivers with Mantle. I'm sure the guys that make the drivers are very happy about it, and would like exchange a few words with their bosses.

Mantle isn't a driver. It's an API that interfaces with AMD's drivers/hardware.

But there is a driver involved of some kind involved, at least that's what could be seen on one of the images:

Mind you, it should be "small", but in the future when AMD launches new architectures, it should grow a lot to be compatible with the new cards.

Pemalite said:

To put the complexity of AMD's and nVidia's drivers into context though... Their drivers actually have more lines of code than the Windows Kernel, so it's impossible to always have a 100% trouble free experience regardless of what brand you go with.

Yep, I've heard that comparison before.

 

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