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AMD Launches GPUOpen Sofware Development Package
AMD’s open source philosophy deserves a great deal of credit especially when you consider the competition utilizes proprietary features as demonstrated by NVIDIA Gameworks. During CES 2016, I had the pleasure of playing Star Wars Battlefront on AMD’s upcoming Polaris architecture. This open ideology is very impressive and showcases that AMD’s…
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We Wave Good Bye to AMD’s Mantle
AMD had a brief moment with their low-level API Mantle, but it looks like Mantle won’t be a term used for much longer. With DirectX 12 just around the corner and the next generation OpenGL, dubbed Vulcan, there just isn’t any room for it anymore. Nvidia denied to back it…
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AMD R9 290X and Titan X Go Head to Head With DX12
DirectX 12 support has just been added to 3DMark and the results look too good to be true! Delivering performance up to 20x faster than DirectX 11 in certain tests. While Nvidia cards gain a lot from the new API, AMD cards have benefitted from the biggest improvement. The R9…
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AMD Mantle Comes to an End
AMD’s Mantle set a lot of things in motion in the gaming industry and now it looks like it is coming to an end, at least in its current form. AMD will continue to back the companies who invested in it and created games for the API, but its usefulness…
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AMD Has Plans to Optimize Their Drivers for Better CPU Performance
AMD’s GPU drivers aren’t on level with Nvidia’s when it comes to the CPU load created and AMD knows that. They created the Mantle 3D API that is basically just a CPU optimization in disguise, but it might not be all developers that wish to implement it in their games…
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DX12 Can Handle 600K Draw Calls, Increasing AMD GPU Performance by 600%
DirectX 12, due to ship with the forthcoming Microsoft operating system Windows 10, is able to handle 600K draw calls and boost AMD card performance by 600%, according to Stardock CEO Brad Wardell. The claims come courtesy of The Inner Circle, a group of Xbox One gamers who cover related…
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Mantle and DX12 Will Give Major Boost to Multi-GPU Systems, Says AMD
Multi-GPU systems will offer superpowered graphics cards, with the help of Mantle and DirectX 12, according to AMD. The combination of AMD’s Mantle API and Microsoft’s DirectX 12 could allow multi-GPU card to access the full RAM allocation, instead of being split between each GPU. Robert Hallock, Head of Global…
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New Tool Coming To Benchmark DirectX 12, 11 and Mantle
We saw some impressive figures from Microsoft this week, making huge promises about the performance of DirectX 12. However, you’ll soon be able to test out the new API for yourself on your own hardware. Futuremark will be adding a new update to their 3DMark suite called “API Overhead Feature…
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AMD Catalyst Omega Driver Released Early, Then Pulled
On Friday, AMD’s latest GPU driver, the Catalyst Omega, was prematurely released on – then subsequently pulled from – AMD’s website. The early release was presumably accidental, since links to the driver and to a number of tech site articles announcing the news have been deleted. But, while we await…
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Specs Revealed, Promises 4K, Mantle and More.
BioWare have been working hard on the latest entry in the massively popular Dragon Age series and with the November 18th release date rapidly approaching, PC gamers have been eager to find out the answer to the age-old question “can I run it?” BioWare have a good history with PC…
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Interview: AMD’s Richard Huddy Responds To Criticisms of Mantle
AMD’s Mantle API is an interesting development in the PC Gaming industry, it allows developers to leverage low-overhead designs to improve the performance of their games on AMD hardware. Around a month ago we put AMD’s Mantle to the test in a trio of games and revealed some impressive results:…
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Nvidia Speak Their Mind About Mantle
In a recent podcast from MaximumPC, Nvidia finally spoke out about AMD’s Mantle and best we can tell, they couldn’t care less about it. Nvidia Engineer Tom Petersen and Senior Director of Engineering Rev Lebaradian were on hand to discuss the topic and according to them, there are no big…
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Testing AMD’s Mantle
Introduction “Mantle is Game Changing” is AMD’s tagline for their newest low-overhead API. Mantle has been in the news constantly since AMD publicly released the concept on September 26th last year in their public live stream. The biggest claim to fame of this new low-overhead API is its use in…
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GTA V For PC May Get Mantle Support
According to a new report the upcoming PC title by Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto V, will be coming to the PC platform with AMD Mantle API support. Apparently Mantle support has been agreed for GTA V, but is still yet to be formally announced by either AMD or Rockstar…
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Locked Kaveri A10-7800 Launched, Features 512 GCN Cores and 65W TDP
AMD has reportedly launched its locked Kaveri APU, the A10-7800, having it show similar specs as the A10-7850K. The only noticeable difference between the latter is that the A10-7800 has its cores locked, having its main advantage seen in the 65W TDP, 30W less than the A10-7850K and A10-7700K. The…
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