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shakarak said:

Pemalite said:

shakarak said:
Seeing this Mantle stuff really is making me regret my GTX 770 purchase last month. Why can't more companies use openGL :(

OpenGL is more efficient than Direct 3D, but we need to see how it compares with Mantle, the main reason why companies are jumping on Mantle and Not OpenGL is that... Developers actually asked for Mantle and worked with AMD for a couple of years to make the API.

Still, Mantle isn't something that is going to give you 25-50% performance improvement unless you're CPU limited, the higher-end your PC, the less gains you will see (Unless you castrate graphics and resolution which shifts the burdern to the CPU), it's going to be a boon for those running with AMD processors which are pretty horrible in the performance stakes.

However, with that in mind, Mantle currently only works on Graphics Core Next, those with VLIW4 and VLIW5 graphics processors which includes the Radeon 5000 and 6000 series aswell as some GPU's in the Radeon 7000, 8000 and the Radeon R5's and lots more, miss out.
However, because Mantle is open source and it is the venerable PC we are talking about... Some smart bugger is probably going to adapt Mantle to Nvdia and other AMD GPU architectures, it's just going to take time.

Your Geforce is still a very potent card, don't regret the decision, think of all the poor saps using consoles at only 720P with horrible image quality and only 30fps. :P

That's good information to know, it would be nice to see it adapted to use with Nvidia cards as it seems to be  currently the golden child for devlopers. 

It may have been something I should have considered even still, as I'm using an i7 920  @ 2.6 ghz on a OEM HP motherboard that I can't overlock.  I'm fairly certain within the next 1-2 years my CPU is going to bottleneck me and  i'm going to be stucking having to purchase a new motherboard and CPU instead of OCing my cpu to get more life out of it,  which of course will be quite the investment.  I guess I'll just hope most games that release rely more on the GPU and less on the CPU in my situation.

Since I've had my GTX 770 the only 'next gen' game I've played with it so far is Assassins Creed 4 and I did it with 4x AA, ultra high settings, and physyx at medium  I  average 30-50 FPS.  

With an i7 920, you probably would have seen better gains than most, the CPU still isn't a slouch though, it's the single threaded performance that may prove to be limiting, but that's going to be a situation less common over the next several years.

Just give it time, see how the landscape changes, it's still only early days yet.

As for overclocking, that's a bit of a shame... x58 boards are fricken expensive, good excuse to wait and jump on Haswell-E when it releases and join the 8-core/16 thread club? :P By that time your CPU would be almost 5 years old.