AMD has revealed an API that gives developers direct access to GPUs using the GCN architecture.
Now that AMD is powering all four major gaming platforms – namely the Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC – the company has finally revealed its secret weapon to bind these platforms together: the low-level high-performance “Mantle” graphics API. This will allow developers to “speak the native language” of AMD’s Graphics Core Next architecture used in modern AMD-based graphics cards and APUs.
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