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Pemalite said:

Mantle doesn't have any CPU specific abstraction that I'm aware of, it's all GPU only and if you want to use it and take advantage of the heap of developers who intend to support it, then an AMD GPU is the only way forward.

The CPU benefits thanks to the less CPU overhead due to draw cells, thus if you go Intel and Mantle really does take off, it means you won't have to upgrade for even longer, thus Mantle fully supports Intel CPU's, Via CPU's and AMD's CPU's which run x86, you don't need an APU or even an AMD CPU to use it, it's CPU agnostic.
I still recommend an Intel 4670K over something like the FX series, due to it's superior single threaded performance that's vital for a few subset of games.

I'm not 100% sure Intel chips can use all features of mantle (or at all), atleast I've seen that issue pop up at times overclockers.net in many threads. But it's only guessing at this point without benchmarks.

Will see once BF4 patch comes