Brad Wardell Discusses DirectX 12, Xbox One ‘Crumby’ Bandwidth & Draw Calls

Brad Wardell, the CEO of Stardock Studios, has been a long time advocate of the performance of the ‘next gen’ API’s, such as DirectX 12 and AMD’s Mantle. He’s has also been more vocal than a lot of developers (who’ve…

AMD Mantle Benchmark | DX11 vs Mantle API On Mid Range GPU

AMD’s shiny new API is out in the wild, already developers such as DICE are embracing Mantle and users who’ve opted for certain AMD GPU’s are taking advantage of the performance gains. But let’s say you’re torn between buying an…

AMD Radeon R9 280 vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 Review & Analysis | Tech Tribunal

Let’s face it, while the bleeding edge cards are certainly the most impressive in performance, the £150 to £250 pounds market segment is generally the one representing the best value to gamer’s. Both AMD and Nvidia are hard at working…

Naughty Dog Developers Discuss Xbox One DirectX 12 & Playstation 4 API Optimization

For PC owners, DirectX 12’s release next year will solve a long running issue with PC gaming – lack of a low level GPU access via the API. Sure, right now we’ve got AMD’s awesome Mantle API, but there are…

AMD Releases Mantle API WhitePapers & Multiple Blog Posts Detail Mantle Technology

AMD have been busy with promotion of their Mantle API, which isn’t surprising given the time and money they’ve invested in it. Developers such as DICE have already jumped on the technology, and as AMD have pointed out currently they’re…

DirectX 12 & Mantle – AMD Comment on new API – Exclusive Interview

The news of Microsoft’s new API has spread around the internet rather quickly, and despite there still being a little confusion regarding the API it’s going to be great news for PC gamer’s. In theory, it should provide huge reductions…

Mantle API For BattleField 4 Delayed A Month Confirm AMD (updated)

Update: AMD have commented on the reason for delay, and have said “The cause of the delay is due to EA’s recent decision to halt game development in favor of bug stomping.” While disappointing, at least they’re delaying for a good…

Introducing AMD Mantle – Low Level API From AMD

AMD have had a busy few days, they have just announced their new range of GPU’s, including the R9 290x (which is a 5TFLOP monster), and have also let the world know about Mantle. AMD’s Mantle API is a newly…

Next Gen AMD Radeon R9 290X – 5TFLOPS Of Power

AMD have been very busy recently, not only have they just unveiled their new Mantle API, but they have been of course instrumental in helping both Sony and Microsoft with their next generation consoles. But they haven’t been sitting idly…