Is Mantle dead?

Yes it was superceded by Vulkan

>>58894911
No, but has been absorbed into other projects.
Mantle was an industry firestarter to demonstrate how much performance was being wasted in the current (at the time) APIs.

Vulkan is essentially Mantle 2.0

>>58894911
Nah, it was succeeded by DX12.

>>58894911
Vulkan and DX12 killed it.

>>58894911
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>>58895177
They should keep it going as a research project desu

>>58895185
For what research?
It wasn't even compatible with Nvidia cards when it came out. DX12 fixed that, Vulkan half assed on the Nvidia support (see Doom).

>>58895208
That's not Vulkan's fault. It's nVidia's shitty vulkan drivers.

>>58895238
>Nvidia
>Shit drivers
Okay buddy

>>58895208
>For what research?
Cutting edge graphics api ideas

>>58894911
I basically gave birth to two kids. DX12 and Vulkan.

amd literally sacrificed themselves to show the industry how a modern API should be designed. and it succeeded. thanks AMD, we won't forget this.

>>58895185
They kinda do. GPUOpen is a initiative into this direction. They launched Mantle to show that their hardware werent (so) shit but the software that didnt used it right. The amount of performance gain in the FX series were abysmal.

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>>58895343
It's a shame that even with mantle it trails behind Intel.
The gap is much smaller though and AMD FX users can put off upgrading for a while now.

Best value processor on the market for a while has been FX6300 I believe, followed by the A8 7600.

http://www.techspot.com/amp/review/793-thief-battlefield-4-mantle-performance/page3.html

>>58895208
I actually got a pretty significant fps boost using vulkan on a gtx 970. Maybe it helps me out more since I have an older CPU (i7 950)

>>58895260
When was the last time any other GPU vendor released software that actually killed their hardware products?

Actually the only other vendor of any hardware I can think of is FDDI and they did it quite deliberately.

>>58895208
Which is Nvidia users saw a performance gain, right?