News AMD Mantle Battlefield 4 demo shows 45% performance boost

AMD has shown off the Mantle version of BF4, with big performance gains.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/01/09/amd-mantle-battlefield-4-demo-show-45-perfo/1

 

Without these specifics this claim is basically meaningless. I mean for all we know it improves 45% at 640x480 with all settings on low yet shows bugger all improvement at 1080p Ultra settings.

 

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AMD need to stop making silly claims and help push the Mantle games out of the door, then we can decide just how good this API really is.

Until then, I'm on the fence.

 

Despite not knowing the full details of the demo, I think it's worth getting excited over. Extra performance for nothing if your card supports it. I guess your games will be patched and you wont have to buy a new copy?

 

I'm positively moist with excitement, but I still need evidence of how good the improvements are before I'll need fresh underwear...

 

I'll wait to see exactly what hardware and resolution was used, and how Mantle fares in a wider range of games, before I get overly excited. Also "up to 45% faster" is essentially meaningless - what if the peak frame rate is up 45% momentarily but the average or minimum frame rate is only marginally increased?

Maybe I'm just cynical, but this is just marketing waffle so far. Let's see some proper benchmarking!

 

However good it is, its success will ultimately rely on it being widely adopted to the point where the minority of games don't use it.

 

Mantle is a front to push widespread adoption of TressFX in retaliation for Nvidia's botched Bay of PhysX invasion...

 

It was ran on 2 AMD GPU's possibly some Mid or High range cards, and was ran at 1080p with no info on what detail preset was used.

This was posted on the Battlefield 4 forums on Battlelog with people, claiming it was running on a single AMD R9 290 and a AMD A10 cpu, at 4K Ultra preset.

That would be impossible though considering you only get 50fps at 4K Ultra preset with 3 GTX 780Ti's.

If you watch the HD presentation and skip to where they show the demo of Mantle running, you can see up in the top left that it clearly states Mantle Rendering 2 GPU's 1920x1080 59hz.

Whilst I think Mantle is potentially going to be good and may bring AMD back in to the race in the games that support it, Nvidia cards will be able to use it as well apparently so the performance boost made by Mantle on AMD cards may be wiped out when, they are ran on a Nvidia card but until it's released and people can actually try it we just don't know for sure.

I will wait till I can at least try it on my dad's card and then if I can use on my 780Ti's, I will see how it performs but until then I am not believing what AMD say as after all they said Bulldozer was going, to be the next best thing since sliced bread and look how that turned out.

 

Good spot, will update the article.

 

Thanks just thought I would post about it since, it got quite heated over on the Battlefield forums between the old AMD fan boys and Nvidia fan boys.

Still I think the results are not to bad but obviously without knowing 100% what the actual hardware is that was used, we cannot know whether Mantle was really giving such a big improvement or not.

 

Indeed, if it was running on an HD7730 colour me impressed, on an R9 290 not so much

 

This is already late by my maths pre 2014 was the supposed launch date for this its now 2014.

Its at the low end where this will be most benefit for the APU race. If its 45% on the high end stuff that already ran it to begin with thats rather pointless. But if its 45% on 2 low end gpus then it could be huge.

Have a 7970 to run it on when it launches in bf4 so we shall see I guess.

To succeed mantle needs to achieve what physics did not and actually be in every game thats made not used by 10 or so games. If that happens AMD has a winner on its hands and will encourage more people to buy there gpus.

What I think will happen AMD sponsored titles will get mantle and everything else wont. Similar story to physics with all nvidia sponsored titles get physics.

Works out at around 20 games a year on both sides. law of averages say 50% of those are rubbish. so 10 games a year on both. Puts in the irelivent catagory just like physics currently is. Its a nice extra but you dont miss if its not there.

Take even the current steam coming soon list mantle is not part of any game in that list. We could even have a situation where the only games that support mantle are on origin store as the first few games are mostly made by EA.

 

Disagree. PhysX is a forgettable piece of visual tech - this is a potentially revolutionary performance enhancing piece of middleware. People actually really care about fps - they don't really care about the things that PhysX brings to the table.

Given that it supports Frostbite, and clearly Cryengine (as Star Citizen is using it) - if it really can deliver 45% performance increases in those games - people are going to take notice (as are devs)

 

Indeed . Too many want to instantly bash all things gaming these days.

But this is potentially a game changer, if they can get it up and running. As I understand it, it could give much higher frame rates , but more importantly, eliminate those huge frame rate dips you get in very heavy action, dips that even the best rigs currently suffer from.

 

Forgettable visual tech what is graphics if its not about visuals, quite a fan of Physx, shame it doesn't run on my GPUs now.

Physx was only problematic when there was a performance hit but games like Batman were all the better for it, without it Batman looked like a last gen console game.

Gotta have all the eye candy but also need enough fps, running a couple of ATi machines and I've not experienced so many quirks/issues with bloomin drivers so I don't hold up much of hope of Mantle being any good out of the gate.

Happy for them to prove me wrong though its sounds like its a thing for low end machines.

 

so far so good.... really hoping for some extra info on this, but so far this announcement is lining up with what was expected of it.... now just get it out to consumers within the month and nvidia will be thoroughly in the doghouse this gen.

 

It's more the principle of going low-level on PC and utilising that previously shielded performance . Showing it's not only possible but practical , really PC graphics HW has nowhere else to go.

If DirectX didn't exist today, then no one would create it. Nvidia will likely have to get on board too , using more and more powerful, power eating GPUs and brute force to compensate for DirectX, isn't a good strategy.

 

I was hanging on to my 7970 just for mantle but I dont hold out much hope for it to be a rip roaring success from the off so I bought a 780 classified I might regret it though!

 

From another forum: http://s14.directupload.net/images/140115/7r6wjq9b.png

Seems that the GPU was limited by the Kaveri APU it was paired with but it was running on an R9 290X at 1920x1080 using Ultra preset.