Question
What about AMD Mantle? Is it useful?
Hello there,
I am currently thinking about which type of graphics card I am going to buy in a few months (maybe in october). If I had to choose right now, I would pick a nvidia GeForce GTX 780 because of the reliability. It seems that the Radeon R9 290 has some issues with temperature and is quite loud.
But then there is Mantle, the new API from AMD. I didn't read much about it, but I heard some people say that it would be nice with Battlefield 4 and brings a lot more frames per second. I am not really sure, if I can believe this, because today I read an article in a german computermagazine called CT (like in Computer Technology), which is one of the few respected magazines with good reputation, in which they stated that most of the time Mantle doesn't bring you any benefit. Unless you have a poor CPU and 3D-scenes that rely on CPU-power.
And then there is this table from another article of the same issue of CT:
With the Radeon R9 290X there is just a minimal gain of one single frame...
With Radeon R9 270 the performance is even worse! :?
What might be the reason?
So what did you experience with Mantle and what do you know about it? Will it get better in the future or is it just nice for multiplatform gaming? (Linux)
I am currently thinking about which type of graphics card I am going to buy in a few months (maybe in october). If I had to choose right now, I would pick a nvidia GeForce GTX 780 because of the reliability. It seems that the Radeon R9 290 has some issues with temperature and is quite loud.
But then there is Mantle, the new API from AMD. I didn't read much about it, but I heard some people say that it would be nice with Battlefield 4 and brings a lot more frames per second. I am not really sure, if I can believe this, because today I read an article in a german computermagazine called CT (like in Computer Technology), which is one of the few respected magazines with good reputation, in which they stated that most of the time Mantle doesn't bring you any benefit. Unless you have a poor CPU and 3D-scenes that rely on CPU-power.
And then there is this table from another article of the same issue of CT:
With the Radeon R9 290X there is just a minimal gain of one single frame...
With Radeon R9 270 the performance is even worse! :?
What might be the reason?
So what did you experience with Mantle and what do you know about it? Will it get better in the future or is it just nice for multiplatform gaming? (Linux)