Comment by dralley
22 days ago
IIRC Mantle was co-developed by DICE, I think DICE may have even had the initial idea and done the prototyping.
22 days ago
IIRC Mantle was co-developed by DICE, I think DICE may have even had the initial idea and done the prototyping.
Here's a video where John Carmack, Tim Sweeney, and Johan Andersson (from Dice) talks about AMD Mantle in 2013: https://youtu.be/MH2hjhcfWic?t=4975 Carmack is sceptical, Sweeney likes it but doesn't want yet another API.
And here's another video where Andersson talks about the motivation behind Mantle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApdf4P2Iak