Este sa vratim k tomu "Oxide" videu co tu spomenul Krtek a akosi ostalo bez reakcii. V tom rozhovore s vyvojarom z Oxide Games sa vyslovene hovori ze nejde o ziadne eye-candy demo ale o interne vytvorenu simulaciu RTS povodne v DirectX na otestovanie moznosti pocitacov. Pre test Mantle pouzili FX-8350 na polovicnej frekvencii a grafiku R9 290X (hovori tam o the fastest GPU, preto predpokladam ze je to 290X), pricom aj na podtaktovanom CPU bola bottleneckom tato vykonna grafika. Tomu chalanovi je strasne zle rozumiet, ale je tam par podla mna dolezitych informacii, ktore su ovela podstatnejsie ako tie spekulacie co tu niektori cucaju z prsta.
Q: You have been implementing Mantle, what do you think?
A: We are excited about Mantle, we are excited about the future of gaming.
And so far everything that AMD has claimed about Mantle has been not only approving but in fact conservative for what we have seen and tested.
Q: What happens when you turn Mantle off and get a regular DirectX playback?
A: With DirectX you can end up with some frames that are a little bit too slow and we have to back off on some of our graphics fidelity to trying back off on what we are asking the GPU to do. And the really sad thing for us is that
we are not backing off on our workload because the graphics card can't keep up, we are backing off because the driver can't handle the extra CPU cost.
Q: How hard was it to actually implement Mantle?
A: Mantle is not terribly difficult, it took me about two months to port our engine into Mantle. We originally developed for Direct3D, so this was highly optimized in Direct3D and we are more profound of Direct3D than virtually any other engine. We are very proud of our performance.
But when I plugged in Mantle support and we kind of flipped that switch and watched it go it was amazing how fast it was out of the box and we haven't really done a lot of specific optimizations for it.
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Krteq píše:Mimochodem, to video z CES s BF4 údajně běželo na kombinaci Kaveri + R9 290X

Po zhliadnuti toho Oxide videa to zacina davat zmysel.