Hardcore Gamer: Last weekend at CES, Oxides’ proprietary Nitrous Engine was shown off, which is said to be the future of strategy games.
Nvidia has released the first official benchmarks for this new driver, showcasing the performance gap between AMD’s R9 290X running under Mantle and Nvidia’s 780Ti running with these latest drivers.
Replies(1)Doh. I JUST checked before playing Titanfall. Hopefully thisll get rid of all those dropped frames on my 770 for good.
Got some mixed results in Batman:AO. My Average and Maximum FPS increased but my minimum decreased. Very increases, 1 and 2 fps on the Average and Maximum, but a 6fps drop on the minimum. Certainly no 15% increase in performance, but then again I believe this is more for weaker cpu's. I'm running an i7 4770k. It's also a beta driver, so it may get better, we shall see.
Oxide Games has released an updated version of their Star Swarm stress test, for anybody with a Mantle-compatible AMD card who wants to test out the API for free.
What Mantle is, what it does, and how the Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers perform under benchmark conditions. IncGamers' Peter Parrish takes AMD's API for a spin.
