DirectX 12 to be announced at GDC!

[ethomaz]

vivster said:

ethomaz said:
They will announce the DirectX close to metal extension... OpenGL too... Mantle will be dead like I predicted but it have its poupose of make MS and KG moved to the future.

So it will end like all the other things that AMD did well but never penetrated the market. If DX12 will even have half of Mantle's performance boost Mantle will indeed be dead. However MS should have an eye on portability so people can easily upgreade from DX11 to DX12.

The biggest issue with Mantle is that only few AMD cards support it... nVidia dominates with over 60% of the market... from these 38% AMD have only maybe 10% have Mantle supported GPU.

MS already said they are working on something like Mantle to DirectX and I'm sure they will support wat more GPUs that Mantle ever dreamed... so Mantle won't be used except some few games.