Also interesting at the site, the first few pages of an article about an AMD stab at a graphics API: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-cha

Also interesting at the site, the first few pages of an article about an AMD stab at a graphics API: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-change-gaming-decade/ http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-chang... "AMD’s GPU14 public presentation had one big surprise at the end called Mantle [... which] is easiest to describe as a graphics API similar to OpenGL or DirectX but without the overhead."