From Star Swarm and Battlefield 4
Although it has recently released its Mantle-enabled Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver to public, members of the press had a chance to play around with it a bit longer and now we have some of the first tests from Battlefield 4 as well as Nitrous Engine based Star Swarm benchmark in various configurations from APU without discrete graphics up to Core i7 with R9 290X combination.
AMD and EA/DICE have already released some performance figures earlier last week but now we have some scores from reviewers.
The couple of first tests showed up at Legitreviews.com and were ran on Intel's Core i5-3570K CPU, 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory and Sapphire's R7 260X graphics card. In Battlefield 4, the game was tested at 1920x1080 resolution with high settings and without anti aliasing, while Star Swarm managed to run with Extreme settings.
Second test comes from Guru3D.com and shows Battlefield 4 running on three different configurations, with A10-7850K APU paired up with 8GB of DDR3 memory, same APU paired up with R9 290X graphics card and finally, Intel's Core i7-3860X paired up with R9 290X. Although AMD still has to further tweak the Mantle and the driver is still in its beta stage, the results were quite promising. Almost similar tests can be found over at PCPerspective.com and Anandtech.com.
Third set of tests comes from Hardcoreware.net which also tried out the A10-7850K paired up with a bit faster DDR3-2400 memory. Although they had some problems with BF4, the results can be compared to those over at Guru3D.com.
There are a couple of other tests over at Computerbase.de, Golem.de and PCLab.pl. The results from all tests show that AMD did not exaggerate the results for Mantle as it does gain around 10 percent on more powerful systems and even on the A10-7850K APU. Those systems which are CPU bottlenecked should see a much higher performance gain raising up to 30 to 40 percent.
Of course, we will certainly hear more about Mantle API and things will definitely get better as AMD tweaks the driver and more games offer support for Mantle API.
Source: Le Comptoir du Hardware.
AMD and EA/DICE have already released some performance figures earlier last week but now we have some scores from reviewers.
The couple of first tests showed up at Legitreviews.com and were ran on Intel's Core i5-3570K CPU, 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory and Sapphire's R7 260X graphics card. In Battlefield 4, the game was tested at 1920x1080 resolution with high settings and without anti aliasing, while Star Swarm managed to run with Extreme settings.
Second test comes from Guru3D.com and shows Battlefield 4 running on three different configurations, with A10-7850K APU paired up with 8GB of DDR3 memory, same APU paired up with R9 290X graphics card and finally, Intel's Core i7-3860X paired up with R9 290X. Although AMD still has to further tweak the Mantle and the driver is still in its beta stage, the results were quite promising. Almost similar tests can be found over at PCPerspective.com and Anandtech.com.
Third set of tests comes from Hardcoreware.net which also tried out the A10-7850K paired up with a bit faster DDR3-2400 memory. Although they had some problems with BF4, the results can be compared to those over at Guru3D.com.
There are a couple of other tests over at Computerbase.de, Golem.de and PCLab.pl. The results from all tests show that AMD did not exaggerate the results for Mantle as it does gain around 10 percent on more powerful systems and even on the A10-7850K APU. Those systems which are CPU bottlenecked should see a much higher performance gain raising up to 30 to 40 percent.
Of course, we will certainly hear more about Mantle API and things will definitely get better as AMD tweaks the driver and more games offer support for Mantle API.
Source: Le Comptoir du Hardware.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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