| Pemalite said: You are backing me up again, I already said that DICE and AMD have partnered together, it's just DICE isn't really pushing any AMD-specific features anymore. |
But I'm not ...
Nevermind anyways since you posted something contrary to your own statement ...
I don't think AMD wants exclusive features. They only want more performance regardless of other IHVs ...
| Pemalite said:
It's not exposed in Direct X and nor could you really call it an API in the traditional sense like Direct X either. |
It still is an API. You can have both abstraction AND the hardware specific details like Mantle which has both high level constructs including a low level intermediate GPU language known as AMDIL ...
An API is only a tool to carry out a set of tasks. Don't need to overthink the high level vs low level argument. One more misinterpretation is that people confuse DX12 to be a low level API when it isn't even exposing the near same functionalities found from the hardware vendors intermediate GPU language ...
