News: Mantle update out now for Battlefield 4

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News: Mantle update out now for Battlefield 4

Added: 30.01.2014 15:22 | 6 views | 0 comments

Promises significant performance enhancements for selected AMD graphics cards.

News: Mantle update out now for Battlefield 4 news

"Mantle is a new low-level graphics API that we've been working very closely with AMD on over the last 2 years and it is a major change & improvement to how we are able to program & use modern GPUs in order to get the most out of them," explaines Johan Andersson, Frostbite team technical director.

"Battlefield 4 on PC is already quite heavily optimized using DirectX 11 and DirectX 11.1, but with Mantle we are able to go even further: we've significantly reduced CPU cost in our rendering, efficiently parallelized it over multiple CPU cores and reduced overhead in many...