What is the Difference between regular and AMD Mantle?

[๖̶̶̶ζ͜͡King DawsonK]

I'm curious what the difference is, anyone know?

[Bubs]

for me: 1 launches the game most of the time, other does nothing

[Cryten]

AMD mantle is an alternative to Direct X as a rendering and compatability layer between the program and your graphics card. Think OpenGL and its replacement Vulcan.

In the case of Mantle its restricted to AMD tech.

[Jonatas]

But does it do anything different or it's just another way of doing the same thing DX does?

[uni790]

Originally posted by Jonatas:

But does it do anything different or it's just another way of doing the same thing DX does?

as far as I know it's AMD's version of Directx, that's it. Where Directx more or less is Nvidia's thing.

[in memoriam of Sharky]

I am not an expert but as I know ... in short... with mantle you will have better performance if your CPU is the bottleneck in your system. Its easy ... Use mantle if you have better performance with it . Thats all. (only AMD gpus support it)

[Mr. Huckleberry]

I recently got an AMD GPU, and would like to use Mantle, but like Bubs, that mode doesnt like to launch.

[Vortek Gamer]

AMD Mentle is base on that The AMD CPU have CPU and GPU in side (Like my : 4 CPU and 8 GPU) so to get that working you need to have AMD CPU (Some would say APU) that have both CPU and GPU like mine dose.

[markdb92]

only certian amd gpus can use mantle and if have amd gpu and the mantle option doesnt load then your card does not support it.

Vulcan is amd mantle at the base level which will be supported by both companies and more cards.

[๖̶̶̶ζ͜͡King DawsonK]

lol

[Vortek Gamer]

hope this video helps you guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPgJB2x7dQ

[cp7781]

It would be nice, if the software itself decides when it's the best available choice to use the Mantle API. This little window is at program start seems to be unnecessary, and people want to get rid of it because it looks like an error indication.

[uni790]

Originally posted by cp7781:

It would be nice, if the software itself decides when it's the best available choice to use the Mantle API. This little window is at program start seems to be unnecessary, and people want to get rid of it because it looks like an error indication.

That's a bad plan, you have any idea how often that would mess up? Best off leaving it to the user, and it looks nothing like an error window...

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by RyanKnight:

I'm curious what the difference is, anyone know?

Mantel is a low-level API
It communicates directly onto the GPU and boosts performance, instead of an API like Direct X that runs a lot of the overhead in software and consumes a lot of CPU power.

It only works on newer AMD cards and it's been abandon at this point; however DX12 and Vulcan will both replace it.

If you have a newish AMD card (O think the 7000 and higher), it should work fine and you should see a 10 to 20% frame rate boost. If you have an Nvidia Geforce card, you can only use DX11

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Origin:

Originally posted by uni790:

as far as I know it's AMD's version of Directx, that's it. Where Directx more or less is Nvidia's thing.

DirectX is not restricted to Nvidia. Its Microsoft owned low leveled API. Just as Vulkan is by Khronos Group (which is the successor to Mantle).

DX isn't a low level API

DX12 is a low level API, and it's only available in Windows 10.

[Ultima_Weapons [SWE]]

Originally posted by Cryten:

AMD mantle is an alternative to Direct X as a rendering and compatability layer between the program and your graphics card. Think OpenGL and its replacement Vulcan.

In the case of Mantle its restricted to AMD tech.

I assume that it won't work for me 'cause that although I'm using an AMD Processor, my GPU is a Geforce.