| shakarak said: Seeing this Mantle stuff really is making me regret my GTX 770 purchase last month. Why can't more companies use openGL :( |
OpenGL is more efficient than Direct 3D, but we need to see how it compares with Mantle, the main reason why companies are jumping on Mantle and Not OpenGL is that... Developers actually asked for Mantle and worked with AMD for a couple of years to make the API.
Still, Mantle isn't something that is going to give you 25-50% performance improvement unless you're CPU limited, the higher-end your PC, the less gains you will see (Unless you castrate graphics and resolution which shifts the burdern to the CPU), it's going to be a boon for those running with AMD processors which are pretty horrible in the performance stakes.
However, with that in mind, Mantle currently only works on Graphics Core Next, those with VLIW4 and VLIW5 graphics processors which includes the Radeon 5000 and 6000 series aswell as some GPU's in the Radeon 7000, 8000 and the Radeon R5's and lots more, miss out.
However, because Mantle is open source and it is the venerable PC we are talking about... Some smart bugger is probably going to adapt Mantle to Nvdia and other AMD GPU architectures, it's just going to take time.
Your Geforce is still a very potent card, don't regret the decision, think of all the poor saps using consoles at only 720P with horrible image quality and only 30fps. :P
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