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It seems a tweet from Michael Marks the development director at porting house Aspyr Media has been taken out-of-context by another well known Linux website, time to clear things up.

Mantle is the new API from AMD developed as an alternative to OpenGL and Direct3D, for those that didn't know.

Here's the tweet in question:

@NThibieroz @FiraxisGames sadly no mantle for SteamOS either, but @grahamsellers will enable #BeyondEarth on AMD linux

— michael_marks (@michael_marks) April 13, 2014


Now, bear in mind this is specifically talking about the new Civilization game that is coming to Linux, it cannot support Mantle on Linux/SteamOS since Mantle isn't yet on Linux.

This will also help clear it up:

@oscarbg81 @michael_marks @FiraxisGames @amd_roy "AMD is actively evaluating other platforms to bring Mantle to". :)

Nick Thibieroz (@NThibieroz) April 14, 2014


That tweet is directly from Nick Thibieroz the Gaming Engineering Manager for AMD.

I hope this clears any confusion up. Mantle isn't even that big of a deal anyway, since it currently will only support AMD hardware which has a bad history on Linux, and AMD, Intel & Nvidia all talked about unlocking 15x more performance with OpenGL anyway, so Mantle seems like a wasted effort.

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Samsai Apr 16, 2014
This debate is quite interesting, but it has the bitter taste of trolling in it and it's not quite on topic anymore either. If you wish to continue discussing this, please consider starting a forum thread about it.
Orkultus Apr 16, 2014
I think AMD should sell off their GPU section, and just stick to CPUS. At least they do that right.
Anonymous Apr 17, 2014
Quoting: OrkultusI think AMD should sell off their GPU section, and just stick to CPUS. At least they do that right.

Yep 100% agree with you.
oldrocker99 Apr 17, 2014
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Samsai Apr 17, 2014
I think I mentioned about staying on topic earlier... We are talking about Mantle, not AMD's hardware.
Lordpkappa Apr 17, 2014
Quoting: OrkultusI think AMD should sell off their GPU section, and just stick to CPUS. At least they do that right.

AMD at the moment lack in CPU horse power and are great in gpu, if they sell the gpu section i don't know if they can compete anymore...
Samsai Apr 17, 2014
Because these comments just can't stay on topic and I fear that the trolling of AMD users will continue, I will now close the comments for this article. If you feel like I am violating your freedom of speech or you wish to continue the discussion, please start a thread on the forum.
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