During the press meeting at Consumer Electronics Show 2014 in Las Vegas, AMD also revealed and shed some more details regarding the upcoming Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver pack which will include Mantle and TrueAudio runtimes. Scheduled to launch sometime later this month, according to AMD promise, the new driver promises some impressive performance improvements thanks to the Mantle API as well as TrueAudio with positional audio DSP in order to make the sound in games just a bit more realistic.

According to AMD's Terry Makedon, the new Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver will indeed be the one which will finally push both Mantle API and TrueAudio out. In case you somehow missed it earlier, Mantle is AMD's 3D graphics low-level API created to replace Direct3D and OpenGL and comes optimized for AMD's GCN architecture. AMD's TrueAudio on the other is a positional audio DSP for more realistic sound in both games and movies.

AMD's Mantle will debut in EA/DICE's Battlefield 4 game as soon as the company comes up with a patch for the game. Although it already should have come out, DICE had to focused on bugs and fixes for the game and delay the Manle patch. AMD is promising over 45 percent performance improvement for Mantle in Battlefield 4 and it certainly sounds quite impressive, at least on paper.

In addition to Mantle and TrueAudio support, the new Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver should also bring further improvements for frame-pacing issues.



Source: via Techpowerup.com.