^^ best troll post ever since I started follwing mantle in like september
Couldn't agree more.
Why do people find the need to bitch is beyond me. If you do not understand it or dislike it just ignore it.
Juvenile loyalty and stung e-peen
People tend to hate, dismiss and/or get angry at what they don't understand.
Correct indeed.
Given the results so far I'd like to add that 10% on high end is still pretty decent. Won't persuade me to leave my overclocking friendly Titan though. I'm waiting to see the 290X Lightning but I'm not hopeful given recent incarnations...
There is a problem with Mantle though and it's not the tech and it is something people are overlooking or pointing out in slightly hysterical, emotional posts. I play BF4 a lot - way more than any other game. So it would be good if i had a GCN card for that. But... what about all the other games that don't elect to develop code for Mantle? (And don't shout out THief and Star Citizen and the handful of others, it needs
saturation to change the world)
Mantle is only as useful as the games that work with it and no matter how efficient it is over DX11.x, it can't become a 'game changer' without Nvidia and Microsofts backing. I see it going one of three ways and only one is good.
1) AMD work with M/soft and Nvidia to make Mantle happen across the board. This is currently the awesome but highly unlikely option.
2) Nvidia doesn't like what it sees with Mantle's performance boost and starts to heavily invest in AAA titles and worse (like the AC franchise) starts locking out AMD cards (this will lead to number 3)
3) Mantle doesn't gain traction due to poor uptake. A few AAA titles wont help it survive. It dies quietly.
We can see early on Mantle is fantastic if you have low end CPU, GCN GPU architecture and a Mantle coded game (so you need 2 things for Mantle to work). But it's out of AMD's hands now in many ways. No matter how hard people want to say otherwise, Nvidia and Microsoft can kill it off if they choose to by effectively buying up the best games. This would be tragic for us all quite frankly.
M/Soft has pride - too much pride. Do we think it will like what it sees Mantle doing to DX11.x? Absolutely not. It can support it or fight it.
Nvidia, well, the exact same as M/soft.
If I was an arrogant son of a bitch at the head of these companies (oops, they both have them!) I would be thinking how i could kill Mantle. If i saw the light, I'd approach AMD and ask to co-operate with it.
That's where Mantle's future lies. Death or Glory, there is no middle road.