Hey all I'm building a pc with an fx 6300 and a r9 270x. I just saw the logan vs pistols rig video and saw benchmarks about mantle? Iv heard of the word. But what exactly is mantle? And what does it do that pistol got a. 20fps boost? Please tell me and if possible cud u tell that if it's possible to do mantle on my rig? I'm goin all amd like pistol.
It's AMD's own graphics API (Application Program Interface). Basically, it allows developers to have lower level access to the hardware. It means that they can optimise the game a lot better for AMD cards.
DirectX is Microsoft's universal API. DirectX 12 should be more similar to Mantle in terms of access.
Yes, your 270X supports Mantle.
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Just to add some extra info Mantle will be probably not used any more in the mainstream commercial market and its basis is used in the new Khronos API called Vulkan that will replace Mantle and probably OpenGL.
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And vulkan/opengl inherited a lot of code from mantle
Hmmm.... Ok I understand that mantle is great, and IS EXTREMELY RARE TO FIND. But now,...... WHAT THE HELL IS VULCAN?
Just for reference vulcan will not replace opengl, vulcan is opengl. The link you provided even states that it used to be called next generation opengl initiative. It is in essence a rewrite of opengl, not a competing api
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