Chance of supporting Mantle in the (near) future?

[mrdeath]

Hi,

With the recent release of the Mantle API from AMD that seems to let developers gain more control over the GPU and apparently extract more power from it, do you intend to support this API in the future?

Have you already looked a bit at it? Can it help you?

Thank you.

[savage309]

Hi,

With the recent release of the Mantle API from AMD that seems to let developers gain more control over the GPU and apparently extract more power from it, do you intend to support this API in the future?

Have you already looked a bit at it? Can it help you?

Thank you.

This API is not applicable in our case (it may come in help for game devs).

[mrdeath]

Hello Savage,

Thank you for your answer. Even if the answer surprises me a bit.
What kind of interface do you use to interact with the GPU?

Other question then, do you think that Autodesk might obtain better results in 3dsmax if they implemented the API within their software?

Thank you.

Regards,

[savage309]

We use APIs that allows general purpose programming (OpenCL and CUDA).

I have no idea if Autodesk would adopt that one, but if there is any major benefit (which I am not sure at the moment, since I haven't test it for real), probably they will.

[mrdeath]

Ok. Thank you for your opinion.