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mantle in a nutshell is AMD's initiative to create a new programming model to

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fully exploit the capabilities of modern gpus to improve graphics performance

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that's directly from their

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more the idea is to give developers the ability to have their game and interact

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directly with the hardware to reduce unnecessary overhead to take advantage

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of mantle right now you'll need a gcn architecture AMD Radeon graphics card

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with a mantle compatible driver and a mantle ready game at the moment the only

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game commercially available is Battlefield 4 but AMD also has a

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benchmark called star swarm that was built using the oxide engine that you

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can download on Steam now performance with mantle is a bit of a complicated

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story it is supposed to improve performance but it's not that simple so

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I'm going to hand the video over to Luke who has spent the better part of a week

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testing multiple CPU platforms multiple

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graphics cards multiple benchmarking segments within Battlefield 4 and

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generally going on a voyage of discovery about this exciting new technology from

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AMD without further Ado I'll let him take it away the original purpose of

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this video was actually to go on the steam Hardware survey and figure out

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what a lot of people were running and we were then going to Benchmark those cards

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and those setups to figure out what tangible benefit people would get now

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with mantle that didn't really work out so well and I'll get into that more

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later on but for now we'll go into what actually we ended up doing to actually

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get the results that we were hoping to I changed from storming the beach on the Singapore level like I normally do with

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Battlefield 4 benchmarks and went to the broken Flight Deck this is a little bit

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more CPU intensive than the Singapore level is and a better representation of

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mantle and we're trying to find better representations of of mantle in

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Battlefield 4 so it kind of made sense uh the 3960x 290x platform that I was

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running for this performed quite well and with the direct X11 to mantle

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comparison when both of them were overclocked we got about a 133%

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Improvement going to mantle that's very solid for just switching a settings in

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your video settings uh but when we tried something that a few people have been

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trying which is underclocking their CPU to see what kind of performance gains

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they'll get then we moved the 3960x to 2 GHz and saw a 20% of which is a lot more

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solid although I don't see this being that tangible because the availability

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of really high-end powerful CPUs these days is making it so that not that many

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people actually have weak CPUs the the price per performance of CPUs is quite

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solid so most people even in the budget end are coming out with pretty solid

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CPUs far above the 2 GHz range that I set that CPU to so back to the steam

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Hardware survey I ran a ton of different stuff based on the information that we

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got from the steam Hardware server so that went from radon 777s to 7850 to

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797s to r9290 x's and then with CPUs we

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went from 3960x to 4670 K to cavar CPUs

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I had tons of different setups and mixes and stuff going on and that felt as

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random and ridiculous as the results I got from those setups which didn't make

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a ton of sense now I don't know where to throw blame at for this there's a fairly

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new patch from EA for Battlefield there's a new beta driver from AMD

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there's me testing on different levels in Battlefield there's fraps and the

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built-in tool in Battlefield recording the FPS there's tons of different stuff

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going on but either way these results were not properly representative of the

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platform and I know that for sure because there are certain setups that

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should have no matter what been above certain ones that they were not so these

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numbers were not valid and I'm not showing them and hopefully if you're

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watching this in the future all of those things have been resolved and that's why

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I'm not showing them is because if you watch in the future and I show all these

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problems and they're fixed then it's not very well applicable another thing to

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note if you're running these benchmarks on your own the best results are shown

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on gcn 1.1 that is the 290 series The

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260 series and the 7790 uh if you are running on gcn 1.0

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that's say the 7,000 series graphics cards uh you Mantle still works fine

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you'll still still see improvements in especially the very specialized situations like starstorm which we'll

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talk about later but it won't be quite as nice as the improvements you'll see

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on gcn 1.1 another thing to note might be that Battlefield 4 isn't actually in

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my opinion the best representation of mantle to really show mantle off you

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need a lot more CPU horsepower under there pushing the CPU as hard as you

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possibly can and with that enter star

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swarm star swarm is an entirely another Beast this thing will punish your CPU as

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much as it possibly can and that's perfect to show off mantle so we tried

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this out in a ton of different ways and you can see in every different way I

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tried it out the simple switch over to mantle just completely destroyed it in a

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way that is speaks more than just the

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numbers this can actually unlock different types of games people can

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start developing things for manle that they weren't able to develop before

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maybe it's still an RTS but it's on a completely different level because each

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individual guy can have their own very highly Advanced Ai and you can have

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thousands of these little individual guys imagine playing an RTS with there's

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some of them out there but with thousands of little minions but having them all be very Advanced AI That's

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something interesting to think about we even have games coming up in the near

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future that are already planned that can take huge advantage of mantle like Star

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Citizen there's going to be huge amounts of ships in one small area with AI

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controlled turrets with AI Manning different systems within your ship that

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is in this giant system and it's going to be nuts there's projectiles going to

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be flying all over the place and mantle will definitely help there as always

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type of thing are you excited for mantle are you excited for the games that will

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be able to come out with mantel are you excited for the performance that mantle

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