It would appear that too many GEEKS are making to big a deal out of the Frames per second they can achieve on their PCs.

Clearly, MANTLE is key for getting the type of performance that can be achieved on the game consoles, by DIRECTLY accessing the GPU.

Was “modern graphics api’s” not generalized enough already? What makes you think I’m excluding Mantle from it, and what makes you think I’m only referring to just DirectX?

What an odd, tangential, zealotic reply.

You call DX a modern graphics API?

just another gatekeeper of the status-quo, mantle is coming and there’s nothing you can do to stop it

all these haters and doubters making excuses, i think it’s a psychological thing, because all your skills with DX will suddenly become irrelevant and worthless, sad, but that shouldn’t limit the indsutry because some guys are butthurt.

Its also a general thing how closed minded people work, they try to protect the belief system. obama is god, trust him; if you like your healthcare plan you can keep it, period.

This is not some brand new thing. We can all do this sort of thing using modern graphics api’s. Furthermore, it’s more likely to be their thread/task/job scheduler the utilizes the most available core, not the renderer directly, which is the standard thing to expect from any multithreaded codebase.

My home code does these things too, and I’m not try to make some fandangled new engine.

As a slight aside, the “keep in mind that films play back at 24fps” comment makes little sense in the context of the question. The classic comparison between film and game frame-rate has been hit upon, and explained, plenty of times in the past. The answer given just doesn’t mean anything here.