Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> computer gaming (yawn)... >> >> Think again. >> >> What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance >> hardware you have right now? >> >> Gaming. >> >> What is the GPU capab

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > computer gaming (yawn)... >> >> >> Think again. >> >> What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance >> hardware you have right now? >> >> Gaming. >> >> What is

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote: >> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that >> > you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the >> > primary high performance market - gamers. >> > >> > Personally, I don't like games much and don't play t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > computer gaming (yawn)... > > > Think again. > > What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance > hardware you have right now? > > Gaming. > > What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, grap

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/10/2013 18:04, Bruce Hill wrote: >> If this is true, it is a GAME CHANGERS (could not resist the pun). >> > >> > >> > So: >> > A. it is time for me to dig into this issue. >> > B. Are any of the folks on this list working to get >> > Mantle support available on Gentoo? >> > C. Anyone tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 03:02:07PM +, James wrote: > Howdy one and all, > > Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle > to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... > > > But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me > from time to time, called me i

[gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-04 Thread James
Howdy one and all, Well I heard about about AMD's push, referred to as Mantle to unseat DirectX as the defacto gaming platform (yawn)... But recently, an egg_head mathematician that irritates me from time to time, called me in the middle of the night. He, being an eceptionally bright and difficu