JEMC said:
Vashyo said:
JEMC said:
I'd go against relying only on the promise of Mantle to decide what to buy now. Not many studios have announced their support for it, so the choice of a CPU should be purely done on a price/performance basis.
Also, if Mantle succeeds it will benefit both AMD and Intel CPUs, so whatever you get, you'll benefit from it.
Given that Mantle must work with AMD's next architecture (otherwise it would be a waste of money and resources on their part), it's hard to believe that it couldn't be ported to work with Nvidia GPUs, although knowing Nvidia they'll probably launch their own (and incompatible) version of Mantle.
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EA will be using it on 15 different games so far, so its gonna be worth it if u play any of their games, there's also Oxide games, Cloud Imperium Games, Eidos and Activision. I would think they got even more unannounced partners.
.http://www.cinemablend.com/games/EA-Frostbite-3-Games-Activision-PC-Titles-Support-Mantle-API-59492.html
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Star-Citizen-Eidos-Montreal-Oxide-Games-Support-AMD-Mantle-60499.html
Its very easy to work on, especially if you're planning to port games between consoles/PC and apparently porting a game to mantle from DX takes about 2 months of work according to Dice's Johan Andersson.
It will work on Nvidia GPUs but ONLY if Nvidia does the work themselves and after AMD release their work to the public, whetever they want to do that is all upto them. Right now only reasons to go for Nvidia for gaming is if you're planning to get a Gsync monitor/card and think PhysX effects are the most important aspect for your gaming experience.
I wouldn't buy anything right now, until we see how this turns out. Worst case you will have better experience with cheaper AMD hardware than more expensive Nvidia hw.
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From those you mentioned, only EA and Eidos have a number of games/franchises to make it somewhat worth it. Activision only has CoD (which once they move to a new engine they won't change it in many, many years), Starcraft (already launched), and WoW (no comments). Mantle won't be necessary to play their games.
I agree that unless you must change your PC now it's worth to wait. Not only to see what happens with Mantle but also because with the move to 20nm and new architectures, GPUs will make a new jump in performance while (hopefully) reducing the power consumption. And lower their prices!
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What, Thief/Star Citizen aren't worth it!?
It's really upto the person in question to decide, he's either getting something great now or getting something good now cheaper which can become great later on. I'm personally excited to play Dragon Age: Inquisition, Thief and Star Citizen on my AMD setup using mantle. ^^
