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		foxhill on June 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Metal – Apple’s new graphics API > There's a limit to how much performance a general purpose graphics abstraction can enable. that remains to be seen, especially given how similar all the GPUs are today. if it weren't for the longs peak shambles, we might not need Mantle/Metal.

MaxBarraclough on June 3, 2014 [–]

> if it weren't for the longs peak shambles, we might not need Mantle/Metal.

Given than Mantle is being used in AMD/Windows (in preference to Direct3D - no OpenGL to be seen) it doesn't seem fair to blame only OpenGL.

foxhill on June 3, 2014 | [–]

DirectX has it's own problems.

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