This is about a fundamental change in hardware that will allow affordable normal CPU core speeds to drive high end GPU's. Also about scaling CPU cores out instead of driving clock cycles higher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWyf8Hyjbg AMD's Mantle seem to decouple CPU cores and allow programs to drive GPU requests. Why is that a game changer? This way a PC can exceed console performance with reasonable cost. If GPU's can be tightly coupled to each core, then 4-8 core CPU/GPU systems will easy outperform any console and deliver a new level of gaming experience. I'm talking freaking blow your mind new level of gaming, not seen since Wolfenstein, Doom or Quake. A new "How the F$%^ did they do that" ( and man I've been Jonesing for one for 10 years ) Ok nice for the gamer, what does that have to do with the rest of us ... Joe? Well since the early 2000's the computer market has been kinda boring just tweaks and moor's law improvements. This new style of API contract delivers ( on paper that is ) a 10x return, opening up massive CPU/"vector math" power at an affordable level ( est. $600-$1.2K investment ) So this technology will benefit audio/video production and other intense math driven types of areas. But take this with a large bucket of salt. AMD has a LONG history of screwing up. If they don't Intel will sue to get control over it, (since they will clam it must have invented this in the past) or they will just not bother telling anyone about it due to marketing budget cuts, etc etc. http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/mantle#overview http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/175881-amd-mantle-benchmarked-the-biggest-innovation-in-gaming-since-directx-9 -- Joe /** ** Joseph T Apuzzo ** High-Performance Computing ** GPFS Expert (Linux, Windows, AIX), Linux LPIC-1 ** ** http://www.linkedin.com/in/japuzzo/ ** http://plus.google.com/+JosephApuzzo ** ** PGP / GPG Key # 0xA16E26CF ** FingerPrint: 19A8 44EC F650 782B 6770 BF0E 2DAA 3D75 A16E 26CF **/
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