Thursday, January 30th 2014
AMD Mantle Driver to Only Benefit Four GPUs Initially
Crushed your F5 key on AMD driver download page yet? Unless you have four very specific AMD Radeon GPUs, you can stop it right now. According to DICE, developers of the first game to take advantage of Mantle, the 3D graphics API AMD is introducing with its Catalyst 14.1 beta driver, will give tangible benefits to only four specific GPUs - Radeon R9 290X, R9 290 (non-X), R7 260X, and A-Series "Kaveri" APU-integrated R7 200 series.
Owners of all other Radeon GPUs, including those based on the Graphics CoreNext (GCN) architecture, such as the recently launched R9 280X and R9 270X, are out of luck, for now. AMD is still ironing out issues with Mantle on those other GCN GPUs. Interestingly, in the same press note, DICE posted performance numbers yielded on an HD 7970, which look promising. AMD is expected to release its Catalyst 14.1 beta driver a little later this week, as it's jousting with some last-minute bug-finds.
Source:
DICE
Owners of all other Radeon GPUs, including those based on the Graphics CoreNext (GCN) architecture, such as the recently launched R9 280X and R9 270X, are out of luck, for now. AMD is still ironing out issues with Mantle on those other GCN GPUs. Interestingly, in the same press note, DICE posted performance numbers yielded on an HD 7970, which look promising. AMD is expected to release its Catalyst 14.1 beta driver a little later this week, as it's jousting with some last-minute bug-finds.
133 Comments on AMD Mantle Driver to Only Benefit Four GPUs Initially
This is pretty incredible.
Even if it's 5%, I'll take it as it is FREE!
I guess putting PhysX at high settings and laughing at single digit scores with Radeon cards was OK, but Mantle is unfair, paperware, useless, just +5% and more ....crying.
It's fucking beta, just wait for full release -.-
any way mantle unless for me ... i think :P
well i caused a ruckus by linking this article to AMD gamings FB page www.facebook.com/AMDGaming/posts/10200714498898563?comment_id=4866731&reply_comment_id=4867075&offset=0&total_comments=124¬if_t=share_reply
the FB article was posted an hour or 2 ago and the pic i posted was taken 5 minutes ago
It's the same as with the FX AM3+ news from two months ago. AMD's "rebuttal" doesn't address TPU's asertion.
Where are you getting that only 4 will work at launch (post amd update)? The way I read it is that all are supported but there are still working to fully optimize the ones listed.
And there's DICE's support for cards
That's 2 different things.