Mantle Arrives To Sniper Elite III – Enables R9 290 to Beat GTX 980

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zero129 said:

vivster said:

mornelithe said:
Next few years are going to be awesome for tablet gamers and PC Gamers without actual CPUs, provided you know, devs are interested in playing around with it, of course.

Fixed that for you.

I mean seriously, you even said it in your quote. Mantle and DX12 will do absolutely nothing for actual gaming PCs which already have CPU power coming out of whatever their equivalent for ears is.

Clearly it will do nothing for them stright away but once more advanced games start coming etc im sure it will benefit the ones with high end gaming PC's too.

How?

The GPU requirements will only go up. There will never be a CPU bottleneck and as such there is no benefit in reduced CPU requirements. Unless you count the few milliwatts you're saving.

Of course it has its benefits in special cases but it will never be effective in the broad spectrum for hardcore gamers. Especially not for high end systems.