Mantle Support
The new Mantle renderer has been added in Battlefield 4. Players who meet the system requirements can expect a performance increase by using this new low-level graphics API.
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Mantle Support
The new Mantle renderer has been added in Battlefield 4. Players who meet the system requirements can expect a performance increase by using this new low-level graphics API.
Savyg wrote:And here we are. The mid range test case is interesting to me.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/ne ... ntle-live/
AMD posted some interesting numbers as well. Seems the only time it won't accomplish much is with a high end CPU and lower end GPU.
http://wccftech.com/amd-launches-mantle ... -not-gpus/
Still waiting on the beta drivers to actually show up, but this definitely looks good. I won't have a vidcard for this until March. Heh.
Thing is however that realistically speaking i would say that the average user can expect a performance increase of about 5 – 10% with Mantle at most.
Deanjo wrote:I do believe those are the EXACT numbers I have been predicting all along in the comments.
puppetworx wrote:Deanjo wrote:I do believe those are the EXACT numbers I have been predicting all along in the comments.
Witchcraft!!
sschaem wrote:Its mind boggling that even after a decade + of optmization by microsoft
Firestarter wrote:I'm pretty excited! Not so much for BF4, but for any tech demos out there that can show me what my HD7950 is actually capable of. Besides BF4, can you name anything that we may want to check out?
tanker27 wrote:Day 2......we wait for drivers........(unless someone knows where to get them elsewhere?)
Savyg wrote:Firestarter wrote:I'm pretty excited! Not so much for BF4, but for any tech demos out there that can show me what my HD7950 is actually capable of. Besides BF4, can you name anything that we may want to check out?
The Star Swarm demo just went up on Steam.
Savyg wrote:Note: AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 initially supports the AMD Radeon™ R9 290X, R9 290, R7 260X and “Kaveri” APU
Arf, well glad I don't have the card yet anyway hah. (I won't decide if I'm going 270X or 280X until I see if the prices came back down.)
Warsam71 wrote:Hello everyone,
I wanted to provide you an update on said topic.
As you may know the Battlefield 4 patch has been launched today. This new patch is automatically installed on systems that already have Battlefield 4 installed. Below is the list of prerequisites that need to be met in order to take advantage of the Mantle API and experience the performance increase:
1. Have a GCN (Graphics Core Next) based GPU in your system
2. Install the latest Battlefield 4 patch from Origin (installed automatically)
3. Install the latest graphics driver, the AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta (coming soon)
With the above in place, you’ll be ready and Mantle will be enabled.
The upcoming AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver will support all desktop GCN products, though we are working with EA to further optimize performance on 280X, 270X, HD 7000 and HD 8000 series GPUs.
In addition, we’re giving the press time to exclusively test the beta driver while we implement the finishing touches on all the features you can expect from this driver.
Please keep in mind that Catalyst 14.1 is a beta driver and your feedback is important to us; once it’s released, you may report any issues or bugs by using our official reporting form: http://www.amd.com/betareport
I will make sure to update this post with the link to the driver as soon as it’s ready.
Thank you very much for your patience