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Mantle (API)
Mantle was a low-overhead rendering API targeted at 3D video games. AMD originally developed Mantle in cooperation with EA DICE, DICE, starting in 2013. Mantle was designed as an alternative to Direct3D and OpenGL, primarily for use on personal computers. In 2015, Mantle's public development was suspended and in 2019 completely discontinued, as DirectX 12 and the Mantle-derived Vulkan (API), Vulkan rose in popularity. Overview The draw call improvements of Mantle help alleviate cases where the Central processing unit, CPU is the bottleneck. The design goals of Mantle are to allow games and applications to utilize the Central processing unit, CPUs and Graphics processing unit, GPUs more efficiently, eliminate CPU bottlenecks by reducing API validation overhead and allowing more effective scaling on multiple CPU cores, provide faster draw routines, and allow greater control over the graphics pipeline by eliminating certain aspects of hardware abstraction inherent to both current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a Information technology, hardware and Fabless manufacturing, fabless company that designs and develops List of AMD processors, central processing units (CPUs), List of AMD graphics processing units, graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), System on a chip, system-on-chip (SoC), and high-performance computing, high-performance computer solutions. AMD serves a wide range of business and consumer markets, including gaming, data centers, artificial intelligence (AI), and embedded systems. AMD's main products include List of AMD microprocessors, microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors, and List of AMD graphics processing units, graphics processors for Server (computing), servers, workstations, personal computers, and embedded syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year, Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent Games Festival, and a variety of tutorials, lectures, and round Table, roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering Video game programmer, programming, game design, design, audio, production, business and management, and visual arts. History Originally called the Computer Game Developers Conference, the first conference was organized in April 1988 by Chris Crawford (game designer), Chris Crawford in his San Jose, California-area living room. About twenty-seven designers attended, including Don Daglow, Brenda Laurel, Brian Moriarty, Gordon Walton, Tim Brengle, Cliff Johnson (game designer), Cliff Johnson, Dave Menconi, and Carol and Ivan Manley. The second conference, held that same year at a Holiday I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CryEngine
CryEngine (stylized as CRYENGINE) is a game engine designed by the German game developer Crytek. It has been used in all of their titles with the initial version being used in ''Far Cry (video game), Far Cry'', and continues to be updated to support new consoles and hardware for their games. It has also been used for many third-party games under Crytek's licensing scheme, including ''Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2'' and ''Snow (2019 video game), SNOW''. Warhorse Studios uses a modified version of the engine for their medieval RPG ''Kingdom Come: Deliverance''. Ubisoft maintains an in-house, heavily modified version of CryEngine from the original ''Far Cry'' called Ubisoft#Dunia, Dunia, which is used in their later iterations of the ''Far Cry'' series. The Dunia engine would in turn be further modified and used in games such as ''The Crew 2''. According to various anonymous reports in April 2015, CryEngine was licensed to Amazon for $50–70 million. Consequently, in February 2016, Amazo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crytek
Crytek GmbH is a German video game developer and software developer based in Frankfurt. Founded by the Yerli brothers in Coburg in 1999 and moved to Frankfurt in 2006, Crytek operates additional studios in Kyiv, Ukraine and Istanbul, Turkey. Its former studios included Crytek Black Sea in Sofia, Bulgaria, Crytek UK in Nottingham, and Crytek USA in Austin, Texas. Crytek is best known for developing Far Cry (video game), the first instalment of the ''Far Cry'' series, the ''Crysis'' series, and the open world nature of their games which showcase the company's CryEngine. As of August 2024, Crytek is the largest game developer in Germany with 405 employees. History 1999–2004: CryEngine and ''Far Cry'' Crytek was founded by the Turks in Germany, Turkish-German brothers Cevat Yerli, Cevat, Avni and Faruk Yerli in September 1999 in Coburg, Germany. One of their first projects was a tech demo of a game called ''X-Isle: Dinosaur Island'', which showcased their game engine techno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GitHub
GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking system, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. Headquartered in California, GitHub, Inc. has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 420 million Repository (version control), repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is the world's largest source code host Over five billion developer contributions were made to more than 500 million open source projects in 2024. About Founding The development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2005. The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoronix
Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) is a free and open-source benchmark software for Linux and other operating systems. The Phoronix Test Suite, developed by Michael Larabel and Matthew Tippett, has been endorsed by sites such as Linux.com, LinuxPlanet, and Softpedia. Features Phoronix Test Suite supports over 220 test profiles and over 60 test suites. It uses an XML-based testing architecture. Tests available to use include MEncoder, FFmpeg and lm sensors, along with OpenGL games such as '' Doom 3'', '' Nexuiz'', and '' Enemy Territory: Quake Wars'', and many more. The suite also contains a feature called PTS Global where users may upload their test results and system information for sharing. By executing a single command, other users can compare their test results to a selected system in an easy-comparison mode. Before 2014, these benchmark results could be uploaded to the Phoronix Global online database, but since 2013, these benchmark results can be uploaded topenbenchmarking. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puma (microarchitecture)
The Puma Family 16h is a low-power microarchitecture by AMD for its APUs. It succeeds the Jaguar as a second-generation version, targets the same market, and belongs to the same AMD architecture Family 16h. The ''Beema'' line of processors are aimed at low-power notebooks, and ''Mullins'' are targeting the tablet sector. Design The Puma cores use the same microarchitecture as Jaguar, and inherits the design: * Out-of-order execution and Speculative execution, up to 4 CPU cores * Two-way integer execution * Two-way 128-bit wide floating-point and packed integer execution * Integer hardware divider * Puma does not feature clustered multi-thread (CMT), meaning that there are no "modules" * Puma does not feature Heterogeneous System Architecture or zero-copy * 32 KiB instruction + 32 KiB data L1 cache per core * 1–2 MiB unified L2 cache shared by two or four cores * Integrated single channel memory controller supporting 64bit DDR3L * 3.1 mm2 area per core ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaguar (microarchitecture)
The AMD Jaguar Family 16h is a low-power microarchitecture designed by AMD. It is used in APUs succeeding the Bobcat Family microarchitecture in 2013 and being succeeded by AMD's Puma architecture in 2014. It is two-way superscalar and capable of out-of-order execution. It is used in AMD's Semi-Custom Business Unit as a design for custom processors and is used by AMD in four product families: ''Kabini'' aimed at notebooks and mini PCs, ''Temash'' aimed at tablets, ''Kyoto'' aimed at micro-servers, and the ''G-Series'' aimed at embedded applications. Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One use SoCs based on the Jaguar microarchitecture, with more powerful GPUs than AMD sells in its own commercially available Jaguar APUs. Design * 32 KiB instruction + 32 KiB data L1 cache per core, L1 cache includes parity error detection * 16-way, 1–2 MiB unified L2 cache shared by two or four cores, L2 cache is protected from errors by the use of error correcting code * Out- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamroller (microarchitecture)
AMD Steamroller Family 15h is a microarchitecture developed by AMD for AMD APUs, which succeeded Piledriver in the beginning of 2014 as the third-generation Bulldozer-based microarchitecture. Steamroller APUs continue to use two-core modules as their predecessors, while aiming at achieving greater levels of parallelism. Microarchitecture ''Steamroller'' still features two-core modules found in ''Bulldozer'' and ''Piledriver'' designs called clustered multi-thread (CMT), meaning that one module is marketed as a dual-core processor. The focus of ''Steamroller'' is for greater parallelism. Improvements center on independent instruction decoders for each core within a module, 25% more of the maximum width dispatches per thread, better instruction schedulers, improved perceptron branch predictor, larger and smarter caches, up to 30% fewer instruction cache misses, branch misprediction rate reduced by 20%, dynamically resizable L2 cache, micro-operations queue, more internal regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMD Radeon Rx 200 Series
The Radeon 200 series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD. These GPUs are manufactured on a 28 nm Gate-Last process through TSMC or Common Platform Alliance. Release The Rx 200 series was announced on September 25, 2013, at the AMD GPU14 Tech Day event. Non-disclosure agreements were lifted on October 15, except for the R9 290X, and pre-orders opened on October 3. Architecture * Graphics Core Next 3 (Volcanic Islands) is found on the R9 285 (Tonga Pro) branded products. * Graphics Core Next 2 (Sea Islands) is found on R7 260 (Bonaire), R7 260X (Bonaire XTX), R9 290 (Hawaii Pro), R9 290X (Hawaii XT), and R9 295X2 (Vesuvius) branded products. * Graphics Core Next 1 (Southern Islands) is found on R9 270, 270X, 280, 280X, R7 240, 250, 250X, 265, and R5 240 branded products. * TeraScale 2 (VLIW5) (Northern Islands or Evergreen) is found on R5 235X and below branded products. * OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders. These are implemented by emula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radeon HD 8000 Series
The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains significant operations in Austin, Texas. AMD is a hardware and fabless company that de .... AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture. However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of newer development). Architecture The Radeon HD 7000 series was launched in 2011 and it marked AMD's shift from VLIW ( TeraScale) to RISC/SIMD architecture ( Graphics Core Next). The highend-mainstream cards were equipped with GCN-based chips while some of the mid-low end ones were just rebranded TeraScale-based cards. All of the GCN-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radeon HD 7000 Series
The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD, and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process. The primary competitor of Southern Islands was Nvidia's GeForce 600 series (also manufactured at TSMC), which shipped during Q1 2012, largely due to the immaturity of the 28 nm process. Architecture Graphics Core Next was introduced with the Radeon HD 7000 series. *A GPU implementing Graphics Core Next is found on the Radeon HD 7730 and above branded discrete GPUs. *A GPU implementing TeraScale (microarchitecture) version " Evergreen (VLIW5)" is found on Radeon HD 7670 and below branded discrete GPUs. *A GPU implementing TeraScale (microarchitecture) version " Northern Islands (VLIW4)" is found on APUs whose GPUs are branded with the Radeon HD 7000 series. *OpenGL 4.x compliance requires supporting FP64 shaders. These are implemented by emulation on some TeraScale (microarchitecture) GPUs. * On Windows, Vulkan 1.0 requires GCN-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
