What’s perhaps more thrilling is that AMD has stated that both Nvidia and Intel are free to use the API as they please. In fact Richard Huddy encouraged both Nvidia and Intel to do so. He stated that AMD will not ask for licensing fees or impose any such restrictions. According to the Gaming Scientist, AMD’s welcoming its competitors to adopt Mantle simply because it offers a better experience for developers and most importantly gamers.
AMD’s Public Mantle SDK is Coming Out This Year – Nvidia And Intel Are Free to Use it
According to AMD, once the public Mantle SDK is out, both Nvidia and Intel can write and release drivers that would enable the close-to-the-metal API on their hardware on all Mantle enabled games. Whether they choose to do so or not however is completely up to them. We know Intel is certainly interested in AMD’s proposition, as it had already approached the company about Mantle earlier in the year.
Richard Huddy went on to state that currently there are over 100 game development teams who have signed up for Mantle. According to Huddy that’s more than double the developers from summer of 2014.
Currently there are over 20 games which have launched with Mantle support or are currently in development. As well as ten publicly announced game studios and four game engines which include Frostbite 3, CryEngine, Asura Engine and the Nitrous Engine. You can find a complete list of all current and upcoming games with Mantle support by our friends at Videocardz.com.