Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote: Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the primary high performance market - gamers. Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when

[gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread James
Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the middle of the night. He, being an eceptionally bright and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:02:07PM +, James wrote: Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 18:04, Bruce Hill wrote: If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun). So: A. it is time for me to dig into this issue. B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get Mantle support available on Gentoo? C. Anyone tested one of the Hawaii

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics