Mantle Comes To Sniper Elite 3!

Orangey · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:34

Not everyone has the same skill level / skillset, or the hours to put in.

shankly1985 · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:37

Nexus18 said:
What is the point of showing these benchmark comparisons with beastly CPUs? The area where mantle shows a massive improvement is when you have a high end GPU and a low/mid end CPU.....

I really should do a benchmark comparison at some point to show just much better BF 4 runs with mantle compared to DX on my rig, difference when in game is literally night and day, DX is just simply unplayable.

edit:

Just seen that matt has edited his OP.

I wouldn't call my old but still up for a fight i7 2600k weak. and I see improvement a lot.

kazuya1337 · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:46

So when is Doom 2 support coming =p

Martini1991 · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:54

To make Mantle V.S DirectX review better, surely they'd use an AMD CPU?

layte · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:55

I wonder how some of the 700 series cards would perform under the same conditions as on those charts if the drivers were not over 2 months old.

Gregster · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:57

James J · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:02

layte said:
I wonder how some of the 700 series cards would perform under the same conditions as on those charts if the drivers were not over 2 months old.

I thought the same thing, but atleast matt will actually play the game now as hes been waiting for it to get mantle support before playing it. Its a cracking game and I had absolutely no performance issues with it on max everything either on my hardware.

humbug · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:30

Thanks Matt

Gerard · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:31

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'd love it if they were, they're running Intel CPUs
Would be funny if even AMD didn't use AMD CPUs!

They usually do in this kind of situation, in the 7990 video it states at the end in small text an intel cpu was used.

Gerard · 2 Oct 2014 at 16:47

Oddly enough mantle results are a good bit lower than d3d in this.

5760x1080 d3d

Average FPS: 36.9
Minimum FPS: 5.4
Maximum FPS: 374.4

5760x1080 mantle

Average FPS: 15.9
Minimum FPS: 7.5
Maximum FPS: 25.1

Even at 1080p I only get around 53 fps, and for some reason mantle seems to disable supersampling even when its turned on in the options the benchark txt reports it as being off.

GoogalyMoogaly · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:03

Gerard said:
Oddly enough mantle results are a good bit lower than d3d in this.

5760x1080 d3d

Average FPS: 36.9
Minimum FPS: 5.4
Maximum FPS: 374.4

5760x1080 mantle

Average FPS: 15.9
Minimum FPS: 7.5
Maximum FPS: 25.1

Wow, those max fps took quite a hit. VRAM issues at that res?

Gerard · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:05

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Wow, those max fps took quite a hit. VRAM issues at that res?

Could be the drivers, ive not updated to the latest ones yet.

Silent_Scone · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:06

Completed this game eons ago

Ayahuasca · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:06

Silent_Scone said:
Completed this game eons ago

Play it again with 5 more fps?

LtMatt · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:19

Gerard said:
Oddly enough mantle results are a good bit lower than d3d in this.

5760x1080 d3d

Average FPS: 36.9
Minimum FPS: 5.4
Maximum FPS: 374.4

5760x1080 mantle

Average FPS: 15.9
Minimum FPS: 7.5
Maximum FPS: 25.1

Even at 1080p I only get around 53 fps, and for some reason mantle seems to disable supersampling even when its turned on in the options the benchark txt reports it as being off.

Gerard said:
Could be the drivers, ive not updated to the latest ones yet.

Use 14.9 WHQL Gerard as this driver is recommended for Sniper Elite V3.

Gerard · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:26

AMDMatt said:
Use 14.9 WHQL Gerard as this driver is recommended for Sniper Elite V3.

Performance is still pish in mantle with the benchmark thread settings, new driver got me the following at 1080:

Average FPS: 52.3
Minimum FPS: 17.6
Maximum FPS: 73.1

And as said according to the benchmark txt file it reports supersampling as being off when its turned on in game.

GoogalyMoogaly · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:31

Gerard said:
Performance is still pish in mantle with the benchmark thread settings, new driver got me the following at 1080:

Average FPS: 52.3
Minimum FPS: 17.6
Maximum FPS: 73.1

And as said according to the benchmark txt file it reports supersampling as being off when its turned on in game.

Is it worth running the benchmark with supersampling off in-game/options and see if it changes the score?
See if it's just an error with the text files (results different) or if it's actually disabling supersampling (results are the same).

LtMatt · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:32

Gerard said:
Performance is still pish in mantle with the benchmark thread settings, new driver got me the following at 1080:

Average FPS: 52.3
Minimum FPS: 17.6
Maximum FPS: 73.1

And as said according to the benchmark txt file it reports supersampling as being off when its turned on in game.

Try enabling it in game and then quit. Check the benchmark thread for my results. I've noticed that it reports supersampling as off, but it's definitely enabled.

Gerard · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:32

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Is it worth running the benchmark with supersampling off in-game/options and see if it changes the score?
See if it's just an error with the text files (results different) or if it's actually disabling supersampling (results are the same).

According to matt theres no crossfire support for mantle yet so its in single gpu mode currently which explains the fps, doesn't explain what's going on with supersampling though.

GoogalyMoogaly · 2 Oct 2014 at 17:36

Gerard said:
According to matt theres no crossfire support for mantle yet so its in single gpu mode currently which explains the fps, doesn't explain what's going on with supersampling though.

Does it make a difference to the Mantle results with supersampling set to off in-game?

No crossfire support for Mantle in games seems to be a reoccurring theme, which I find a bit disappointing really considering it's supposed to be such an absolute doddle to implement Mantle.