nanarchy on 21 January 2014
| Vashyo said: ibuypowers steam machine is the only worthwhile one, from the ones I've seen. But you can still get cheaper better alternative if you build your own setup. ^ remember that they will have mantle API on some future games. BF4 first game this month which apparently has 45% performance increase over DX which is a huge boost and makes 270x punch a weightclass higher than it is. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/01/09/amd-mantle-battlefield-4-demo-show-45-perfo/1 There is no linux version on the works yet though, so windows has to be installed for now. |
Mantle doesn't magically make the GPU 45% faster as there isn't that much overhead in DirectX and OpenGL. However what it does do is if you are CPU bound you will get significant benefits and need a less powerful CPU to fully utilise the GPU. Mantle in this situation does nothing much for the graphics card but does allow them to get away with a much weaker CPU. the 45% figure is also BS, it was for a contrived demo by Oxide.
