What's the deal with Mantle? I saw the option in Thief 4,

>>57817095
Mantle died for Vulkan.

>>57817095
Mantle was reused for both Dx12 and Vulkan. It's a defunct and dead API.

Mantle died for our sins

>>57817123
there is no evidence it was used in dx12 and even amd themselves have said it wasn't. dx12 was in development well before mantle.

>>57817193
>there is no evidence it was used in dx12 and even amd themselves have said it wasn't
Weren't there parts of their documentation that were basically ripped straight from Mantle's?

>>57817282
i remember reading some long reddit post about this and they were claiming that dx12 ripped off mantle because of some lines of code which were really similar or some shit with similar terminology and all that. again, it's just speculation by people and that isn't solid evidence that MS ripped off mantle.

Mantle lives