Soldato
Just seen that and the guy speaks the truth.
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So out of 100% that have tried Mantle 80% love it while the other 20% suffer from PEBAC.![]()
Not quite,
3267 people who voted used mantle which is 45% of that vote.
23% of those loved it,
22% of those chose the other 3 options, which means 52% of those 3267 people loved it, and 48% of those people did not.
Not quite,
3267 people who voted used mantle which is 45% of that vote.
23% of those loved it,
22% of those chose the other 3 options, which means 52% of those 3267 people loved it, and 48% of those people did not.
I'm messing about![]()
Check the Gain here I would like to see some you Guys with Nvidia post some screens from this location.
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Settings and scene as posted by you:
171FPS
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Manly 140% Resolution Scaling:
131FPS
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Double 780Tis
I had between 155/160fps that is not bad from stock 290s just 11 fps
Don't even think I got 100% GPU usage in that scene at those settings. Anything above and beyond 120FPS is just lunacy though
Comparing like for like DX vs DX - It's over 60 FPS difference. Take from that what you will, which is tbh - I have no idea
Mantle giving your 2600k some headroom compared to DX perhaps.
I haven't tested but matt pointed out bf4 dx11.1 on 14.2 driver isn't giving good performance. If I wanted better dx performance for bf4 to use 12.13 driver.
And I totally agree about going over 120fps is pointless I lock mine to 120fps.
I'll be using the 2x16 slots though. Just testing on this board that's going back the space between the x16 slots is twice that of my p8p67 deluxe and that had a decent space between the gpu's.
I know this is off topic but, sorry!
I'm hoping that running 16x/16x gives some benefit to the 290s as I'm running mine in 16x/16x PCIe 3.0 (basically, I don't think X79 + SB-E technically supports PCI-e 3.0, but it's running as GEN3 in BIOS). However, breaking it down I'd have to say I'm sceptical, here's my logic...
XDMA Crossfire is AMD tech. I believe the top AMD motherboard chipset is the FX990. The specs of this say that it can run 2 dual 16x PCI-e. It also says it supports 4-way CrossfireX. This would mean running PCI-e 2.0 8x/8x/8x/8x.
So if PCI-e 2.0 @ 8x isn't enough for XDMA crossfire then even AMDs top of the range chipset would be unable to run their own hardware without issue/bottleneck (admittedly in extreme circumstances). Intel would be able to run them at PCI-e 3.0 8x/8x/8x/8x, which I believe is effectively PCI-e 2.0 @ 16x/16x/16x/16x. So XDMA crossfire could in theory give Intel CPUs a performance boost. Doesn't seem to be a great idea for AMD, especially with Mantle looking to make AMD CPUs more competitive from a gaming point of view.
Removing the CPU bottleneck from both platforms and then introducing a PCI-e bandwidth issue to your own platform but not your competitors seems silly.
Interested to know if AMD have done this though, so await your findings.