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AMD says a 45% increase in BF4 Mantle vs. Direct 3D on Kaveri.

You well illuminate your true character with such words. In the great words of some Earthlings I met a while ago "You are not helping." Not helping what? Chukula didn't debate specific points on technical or logical merits, he opened his post with a broad specious FUD generality - " ...

That rather lengthy set of slides has lots and lots of grandiose speculation. To offhandedly call an official slide accompanied presentation from a person widely acknowledged as among a handful of the most accomplished and brilliant technical minds in the gaming industry 'grandiose speculation' ref...

What he says can be considered valid until proven otherwise. When it comes to people trying to make money, nothing's valid until proven. Strawman argument. Motivations differ widely. Uber-techs like Andersson tend to be far more motivated by technology advancements and creation enabling than money,...

I But with so little information out about Mantle in specifics, there is very little to say in how much of mantle is actually GCN specific, or how much that can be made to similar specifications for Nvidia hardware. http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/mantle-for-developers ... slide 34 Mantle is d...

AMD has no say in this, it is completely up to EA to implement this. Dead wrong. An GPU13 slide stated Mantle was being implemented by an AMD team. My "guess" is that AMD will continue to waste money on hyping up the gimmicky, proprietary features which don't even work for majority of gam...

There was (is?) a joint effort very similar to like the one you described, called the PC Gaming Alliance. Didn't ever produce a thing. According to Wikipedia, AMD is a current member, Nvidia is a 'former' member and Valve is neither. I also see it was announced in 2008 when PC gaming was at a nadir...

A GPU13 slide said Mantle was being implemented primarily by an AMD team with assistance and feedback from DICE/Frostbite. Just imagine the level of histrionic outrage that we'd be hearing if Nvidia were to have its own developers basically rewriting the software for a major AAA game release to spe...

They did say all expansions were put on hold for fixing things, but they never specifically called this an expansion. An expansion is something that makes them lots of money, and it's been delayed. I'm willing to bet that an optimization patch that doesn't (directly) provide them with a single doll...

It has already been mentioned by EA themselves is **20%** I'm only going to quote that part, because the Nixxes dev is not from EA. So no, EA said nothing of the sort. Aside from the base perf boost, it also enables multi GPU setups with vastly different performance (I intend to test that with Kave...

With no official word otherwise, BF4 Mantle should be arriving within 6 days. A BF4 Mantle thread seems in order. No hard data yet so I suggest a harmless guessing game, the 290x vs. 780ti on BF4 Mantle based on HardOCP's apples to apples average frame rate difference between those two cards. This i...