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now running ultra with superb results.
Nvidia are doing pretty well with DX11 VS Mantle,
From: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014...card_performance_review_part_1/1#.UxkaI4VfbLl
The gap could be even bigger with DX12. Competition is a great thing. AMD deserve praise for Mantle and giving MS a kick up the butt. Prob the most exciting upcoming years in PC gaming for as long as I can remember. New Windows, new DX, Mantle, new 20nm GPU's, 8 core Intel CPU's, APU's, DDR4, SteamOS, 4K.. Lot's of changes..
All these peeps moaning like a bunch of old grannys on here, trolling each other, personally think this a great time for PC gaming no matter what brand your hardware belongs to..
+1 on on this, i have one of those 2GB cards and while its inconvenient that i can't run "full ultra settings" i'm still able to run very high setting for what my card is capable of with solid Frame Rates, and my 2GB card is the most powerful one AMD made.
Despite this 2GB cards specifically will get better memory optimisation in April.
Settings for a 7870XT 2GB, runs perfectly like that.
With the like of Cryengine supporting Mantle this looks pretty good. Although I'm surprised with Mantle not having a public SDK.
Obviously Crytek have been given access to the SDK and the use of Mantle will be one of the several code paths for rendering at a low level.
I doubt any Mantle calls will be usable using Cryengine API because that would have to expose the Mantle API, which isn't public.
The Nvidia folks need not worry, AMD users are paving the way for future gaming on PC with Mantle DX.
Don't you have crossfire 290's like me? what game is there currently out or even on the horizon that gives a "much better gaming experience" with Mantle on CF 290's?
Not trying to be a tool here, I know Mantle will improve the experience for people with midrange GPU's or weak CPU's, but for those of us with decent setups it's pretty mute. I.E I am looking forward to playing Star Citizen more on my SLI 780 rig more than my CF 290 rig because it will look better on the green rig due to PhysX, granted the game will be playable under Mantle on lower spec systems that wouldn't run it under DX, but still.
I fail to see how our AMD rigs are getting the better deal here. The way I see it my CF 290 rig gets two years of games being just as playable in DX as they are in Mantle, then it gets to play games in DX12. My SLI 780 rig gets two years of being able to play games fine in DX11 while looking better with PhysX (where applicable ofc), then it gets to play games in DX12 and again PhysX where available.
/shrug.
