AMD’s Mantle is now dead

[DarkPassenger]

AMD’s Mantle “1.0” is dead. Long live Mantle 1.0.

After just a year and a half, AMD appears to be sunsetting its “revolutionary” original Mantle gaming API as we know it, according to a blog post written by Raja Koduri, VP of Visual and Perceptual computing at AMD.

“...If you are a developer interested in Mantle “1.0” functionality, we suggest that you focus your attention on DirectX 12 or GLnext,” Korduri writes.

Korduri said AMD will no longer release Mantle 1.0 as a public SDK as originally intended, which many will take to mean that that is the end of it as an alternative to DirectX12 and the new OpenGL standards. As a consolation prize, AMD did release a 450-page programming guide the company hopes will stimulate better APIs down the road. The company also said it would continue to support any Mantle partners with its full resources.

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[menace-uk-]

Took longer than expected.

 

[TeKPhaN]

sucky news

 

[Kassen]

 

[TheGeneral]

Great news, now developers can focus on Dx12 and GLnext rather than more competing platforms.

 

[jimmyD]

 

[Lucid Rifter]

Hey, at the very least they lit a fire under devs of direct x and opengl. I can appreciate a company helping the industry like that.

 

[eVo7]

Hey, at the very least they lit a fire under devs of direct x and opengl. I can appreciate a company helping the industry like that.

Exactly, something needed to be done badly, DX11 is very inefficient, and Mantle lit a fire under MS's ass to do something about it. Competition is awesome.

 

[wshowers]

Yep, Mantle did its job. Competed with DX11 and got MS to be less complacent with its API.

 

[Mr Bigglesworth]

Yep I guess they took a look at DX12 and realized that Mantle is no longer needed