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Title: Mantle has arrived
Post by: kregoron on February 03, 2014, 09:55:34 AM

Most of you have heard AMD has been working on a new graphics API which has a more direct access to the hardware.

AMD just released beta driver which enables mantle support on CGN chips ;)

So far BF4 and Star swarm has support for it, but with the numbers showing up, more is highly likely coming soon.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-drivers-download,25927.html
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-mantle-api-real-world-bf4-benchmark-performance-catalyst-141_134959

the driver
(not sure if there is any difference on the 32 and 64bit driver, their just listed on different places on their site)
32bit - http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_catalyst_14.1_betav1.6.exe
64bit - http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_catalyst_14.1_betav1.6.exe

Title: Mantle has arrived
Post by: OldBloke on February 03, 2014, 05:33:45 PM

... and this beta gets rid of an annoying flicker that's been driving me nuts. Thanks for the headsup :thumb:

Title: Mantle has arrived
Post by: JonnyAppleSeed on February 03, 2014, 05:53:01 PM

Nice fps boost for me on bf4 .... Test range I was running at 48... Flicked on that mantle bad boy and up to 60 tvm :norty:

Title: Mantle has arrived
Post by: OldBloke on February 03, 2014, 10:14:57 PM

I've tried these drivers on the Star Swarm Stress Test (it's on Steam) on the Extreme setting. Results speak for themselves.

Tested on my ...

== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU:      AMD Radeon HD 7970
CPU:      GenuineIntel
       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Physical Cores:         4
Logical Cores:         8
Physical Memory:       17046192128
Allocatable Memory:      140737488224256

API:            DirectX
== Results ================================================
Test Duration:         360 Seconds
Total Frames:         15647

Average FPS:         43.46
Average Unit Count:      4317
Maximum Unit Count:      5536
Average Batches/MS:      575.40
Maximum Batches/MS:      1500.52
Average Batch Count:      15146
Maximum Batch Count:      101443

API:            Mantle
== Results ================================================
Test Duration:         360 Seconds
Total Frames:         19693

Average FPS:         54.70
Average Unit Count:      4834
Maximum Unit Count:      6004
Average Batches/MS:      991.20
Maximum Batches/MS:      2937.54
Average Batch Count:      20974
Maximum Batch Count:      192277

Title: Mantle has arrived
Post by: kregoron on February 03, 2014, 10:35:35 PM

note, it,does contain a minor bug, most people with cpus containing a non amd mantle gpu, will have to disable it, to open the options in bf4. probably not one the will fixed with ease, as the system can't run with two APIs active on dif cores.

yeah oldbloke, im seeing increases around 15-25% in bf4, and a lot less cpu load

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