Nvidia's G-Sync, and AMD's... or will there be any?

[Guest]

As all of you know, Nvidia released their superb technology, the G-Sync, which is, only compatible with Nvidia cards and GTX 650 Ti Power Edition or higher. So, what about AMD? I mean, it is like unfair to take this advantage alone, right? So, will there be anything like G-Sync from AMD or will Nvidia be kind enough to make it open for its competitor too?

 

[SethS]

Amd, is releasing mantle soon for the r7, and r9 series, and is expected to be supported by games, and begged by game developers, and also vastly improves, in game audio, because of sound chips included in GPU.

 

[huilun02]

AMD has not announced plans to make something similar.

Nvidia has not announced plans to share this technology.

Nvidia is a greedy company that sets high prices for their products and has not shared anything noteworthy.

 

[Guest]

Is G-Sync and Mantle the same tech?

 

[huilun02]

No.

 

[Guest]

Then what is Mantle?

 

[wanderer11]

Mantle is a low level API. It's basically there to make coding for the gpu easier so that you will get more performance vs only using directx.

 

[St0rm_KILL3r]

I asssume you have heard of Amd's mantle. Which will also give amd an edge on games which will support it.

 

[renz496]

Is G-Sync and Mantle the same tech?

no. G-Sync is more about solving frame rates smoothness, screen tearing and input lag at the same time which is not possible with current monitor solution. Mantle is graphic API much like DirectX and OpenGL but it gives developer more low level access to the graphic architecture which is useful for developer if they want to get more performance out of the hardware.

 

[huilun02]

Mantle is (was) slated to be out this month for Battlefield 4. But looking at it I doubt it'll be out this year.

 

[SethS]

Is G-Sync and Mantle the same tech?

no, mantle hasn't advance far enough yet to make a diferance and anything.

 

[Guest]

what is API?

 

[renz496]

what is API?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface

when talking about graphic API mostly it is about DirectX or OpenGL right now.