DOOM on Vulkan Benchmarks
We haven't yet benchmarked DOOM on Vulkan Update (immediately after posting): Ryan has just informed me that, apparently, we did benchmark Vulkan on our YouTube page (embed below). I knew...
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Tag: Mantle
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan… with a Hard Launch
The wait for Vulkan is over. I'm not just talking about the specification. Members of the Khronos Group have also released compatible drivers,...
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Podcast #380 – Microsoft’s Surface Devices, the ASUS X99-E WS. HTC Vive and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #380 - 12/24/2015 Join us this week as we discuss Microsoft's Surface Devices, the ASUS X99-E…
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Vulkan API Slips to 2016
The Khronos Group announced on Friday that the Vulkan API will not ship until next year. The standards body was expecting to launch it at some point in 2015. In fact,…
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What Exactly Is a Draw Call (and What Can It Do)?
Mantle, Vulkan, and DirectX 12 all claim to reduce overhead and provide a staggering increase in “draw calls”. As mentioned in the previous editorial,...
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The DirectX 12 Multiadapter Concept Isn’t Really New…
Windows 10 is about to launch and, with it, DirectX 12. Apart from the massive increase in draw calls, Explicit Multiadapter, both Linked and Unlinked,...
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Podcast #340 – News from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #340 - 03/12/2015 Join us this week as we wrap up news from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more! You can subscribe to…
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GDC 15: Intel shows 3DMark API Overhead Test at Work
It's probably not a surprise to most that Futuremark is working on a new version of 3DMark around the release of DirectX 12. What might be new for you is that this…
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GDC 15: Khronos Acknowledges Mantle’s Start of Vulkan
Neil Trevett, the current president of Khronos Group and a vice president at NVIDIA, made an on-the-record statement to acknowledge the start...
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GDC 15: AMD Mantle Might Be Dead as We Know It: No Public SDK Planned
The Game Developers Conference is San Francisco starts today and you can expect to see more information about DirectX 12 than you could ever possibly want, so be prepared. But what about…
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Podcast #324 – Civilization: Beyond Earth, Consoles Performance Issues, Samsung SSD updates and more
PC Perspective Podcast #324 - 10/30/2014 Join us this week as we discuss Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance, Consoles Performance Issues, Samsung SSD updates and more! You can subscribe to...
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Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle
Turn-based strategy games have long been defined by the Civilization series. Civ 5 took up hours and hours of the PC Perspective team's non-working hours (and likely…
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Sniper Elite 3 Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle
Earlier this week, we posted a brief story that looked at the performance of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor on the latest GPUs from both NVIDIA and AMD. Last week also…
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Khronos Announces “Next” OpenGL & Releases OpenGL 4.5
Let's be clear: there are two stories here. The first is the release of OpenGL 4.5 and the second is the announcement of...
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Prying OpenGL to slip a little Mantle inside
Along with his announcements about FreeSync, Richard Huddy also discussed OpenGL Next and its relationship with Mantle and the role it played in DirectX 12's development. AMD has given Chronos...
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More testing of Mantle’s mettle
Mantle is currently supported by the Nitrous, Frostbite 3 and CRYENGINE engines, and the current official list of released or soon to be released games that support the new API has reached…
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Podcast #308 – Intel and Mantle, XSPC Watercooling Kits, Quantum Dots, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #308 - 07/10/2014 Join us this week as we discuss Intel using Mantle, XSPC Watercooling Kits, Quantum Dots, and more! You can subscribe to…
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Intel Shows Interest in Mantle?
Intel confirms that they have approached AMD about access to their Mantle API. The discussion, despite being clearly labeled as "an experiment" by an Intel spokesperson, was...
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