The first amd driver with mantle support was either 14. However my thoughts about mantle itself, about the delays, the problems you can encounter using it, are far worse. Mojokid writes amd has a new set of drivers coming in a couple of days that are poised to resolve a number of longstanding issues and enable a handful of new features as well, most notably support for mantle. Advanced micro devices took the first fruits of its mantle api live over the weekend with the release of the amd catalyst 14. If your system is not running windows 7 or 10, or for driverssoftware for other amd products such as amd radeon pro graphics, embedded graphics, chipsets, etc. Featuring basic 3d controls found on catalyst control center plus exclusive controls like advanced vsync. After upgrading to windows 10, i noticed a significant drop in performance in some games that previously supported the mantle api. Radeon settings is lightning fast and starts upto 10x times faster1 than the previous amd catalyst control center. The cards will retain mantle api support at the driverlevel, to run existing mantle applications, but will not receive any performance optimizations from amd. Amd has revealed mantle a new lowlevel api for pc that offers game developers the opportunity to more directly access graphics hardware, eliminating many. One explanation that i was thinking of is that as soon as the amd driver detects windows 10, it switches off the legacy mantle features in favour of dx12. We gathered up a number of cpus and graphics boards, fired up. Amd mantle demo game still gpubound with cpu cut in.
As the new amd graphics card will target the gtx780, but run faster than a titan with mantle, amd will give very good value for the money. Mantle is actually useful for any graphics application area especially if. Amd mantle is a new lowlevel application programming interface built for amds graphics core next architecture, replacing highlevel alternatives that failed to use all cpu cores. Thoughts on amd mantle, directx 12 and the future of gaming. Before diving into our longawaited benchmark results, i wanted to quickly touch upon the state of. Mantle also does not work properly in any games using the windows 10 drivers from windows update. Fixes for mantle under battlefield 4 adds a couple important fixes, and we see new ogl 4. Amd officially launches mantle, new driver and patches. This driver builds on the improvements and optimizations provided with the amd catalyst 15. If the only benefit of announcing mantle would be better directx and opengl, then i still think it was worth it.
Amd drivers in windows 10 mantle switched off by default. Amds mantle has been loudly proclaimed as dead following the launch of the vulkan api yesterday, but thats not an accurate reading of the situation. Amds hotlyawaited mantle api is finally ready for a public unveiling, with new. Support for the following new amd desktop apu accelerated processors products. At the gpu 14, amd and dice introduced radeon r9 series graphics cards that are powered by amds lowlevel application programming interface api, mantle. Check out our newest youtube channel, amd developer central. Amd mantle api real world bf4 benchmark performance on. Amd also mentioned a 24 hour exclusive period for press to evaluate the driver before public release, so it looks like your download will be at least 36 hours away.
Developed by the khronos group, the same consortium that developed opengl, vulkan is a descendant of amds mantle, inheriting a powerful lowoverhead. This article provides information on the latest posting of the amd catalyst software suite, the amd catalyst 15. Microsoft hints that directx 12 will imitate mantle, but amd insists its api has a bright future. How amds mantle will redefine gaming, amd hardware not. Since the announcement earlier this week, many phoronix readers have been asking about mantle on linux and discussing the amd graphics api within the forums. Huddy described catalyst as a little long in the tooth, and said his understanding was that amd. Mantles main purposes is that it has a much lower cpu load than the directx draw calls. Amd released the new driver support mantle api driver catalyst 14. Amds mantle is a new graphics api that looks to take on opengl and microsofts direct3d as a new highperformance graphics rendering api.
Radeon settings provides a brand new game manager, improved amd overdrive options per game and new video, display and eyefinity tabs. I couldnt even get the game to start and had to manually edit the profile settings to even get the game to launch. Whats the difference between amds mantle and media sdk. Mantle introducing a new api for graphics amd at gdc14. I was just curious if anyone has seen an benchmarks for vega or even polaris on mantle games. To start with, anyone wanting to utilize mantle in a supported game must install the new catalyst 14. After just a year and a half, amd appears to be sunsetting its revolutionary original mantle gaming api as we know it, according to a. I have the feeling that when amd first announced mantle in september, it was in very early development stage. Amds mantle is a groundbreaking graphics api that promises to transform the world of game development. If not for mantle we might not have seen a timely dx12 release at all, for there wouldve been no reason for ms to act. In 2015, mantles public development was suspended and in 2019.
Farewell mantle amd has ended all support for directx 12s api. Amd has halted optimizations for its mantle 3d graphics api, for current and future graphics cards. Mantle api supports gcn architecture series graphics cards such as the radeon hd 7000, hd 8000, r7 and r9, and new amd aseries kaveri apus a107850k and a107700k. When i try to play battlefield 4 this message pops up 100% of the time. Amd halts optimizations for mantle api techpowerup. Mantle was designed as an alternative to direct3d and opengl, primarily for use on personal computers, although mantle supports the gpus present in the playstation 4 and in the xbox one. Download and run directly onto the system you want to update. The demo, done by oxide games, shows a game engine in its alpha. Keep in touch and stay productive with teams and microsoft 365 and office 365, even when youre working remotely. In this video, amd technical manager dave nalasco goes into detail on this groundbreaking. After a certain driver update, mantle causes the game to crash.
Read on to know more about this api that works with graphics core next gcn architecture. Amds mantle is available to users of certain radeon cards, as are the first few titles with corresponding api support. This particular software suite updates the amd catalyst display driver and the amd catalyst control center. What you need to know about amd mantle tech spirited. A video uploaded to youtube shows an early amds mantle api demo that was recorded at the recent apu 20 developer conference.
Download radeonpro now and take your games to the next level. Mantle was a lowoverhead rendering api targeted at 3d video games. Amd unleashes first beta mantle drivers for enhanced pc. Nextgen strategy game engine lets you control an army of 5,000 units at one time. Amd drivers and support for radeon, radeon pro, firepro. Here we are on saturday night in pacific time, at least and amd has now announced that the mantletastic catalyst 14. Radeonpro amd radeon unleashed unleash the power of. Mantle beta driver amds mantle is a groundbreaking graphics api that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the pc. Api is an acronym, standing for application programming interface. Tempting as it is to jump straight into tests, its vital were all on the same page. I am getting this when i try to play thief using mantle. Windows 10 mantle not working correctly community amd. Weve discussed both dx12 and mantle before, and indeed amd have even given us an interview regarding mantle, but well go over the basics again here just for the sake of completeness. Aber du kannst uns dann bestimmt auch erkaren warum amd mantle hat.
Amds mantle and media sdk are designed to take advantage of amds latest accelerated processing units. Amd officially launches mantle, new driver and patches available. Microsoft hints that directx 12 will imitate mantle, but. This time mantle came out in front, and with a similar sized margin to the one star swarm seemed to provide. What is the difference between regular and amd mantle. We test the drivers ourselves in a real world environment. Amds mantle has been loudly proclaimed as dead following the launch of the vulkan api yesterday, but thats not an. The mantle drivers are part of amds catalyst software, a wrapper for amds software drivers. Intel approached amd about access to mantle pcworld. Amd mantle benchmark dx11 vs mantle api on mid range gpu. Mantle was amds own dx12 so to speak and more of a proof of concept that was incorporated into vulkan later. How amds mantle will redefine gaming, amd hardware not required one of the major planks of amds apu developer conference has been an indepth discussion of its nextgeneration api, mantle. Amd mantle is an alternative to direct x as a rendering and compatability layer between the program and your graphics card.