Mantle in January?

1. Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4 in future AMD Catalyst releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4 and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them as they are the next highest priority products.

2. Multi-GPU support under DirectX and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch.

3. Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire technology in BattleField 4.

4. Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by Mantle in Battlefield 4.:bang::bang::bang:

5. Portrait mode display configurations are currently not supported under Mantle in Battlefield 4.

6. AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the StarSwarm application.

7. Disabling AMD CrossFire technology in the AMD Catalyst Control Center may cause a system hang. If you experience this, a reboot will ensure that AMD CrossFire is disabled.

 

Until it was not. Latest updated is they found a new problem, and pushed the release back for 24 hours: (See German Hardwareluxx - can't post links because of stupid anti-spam rules)

 

bf4 update release 1.24GB , i am downloading now

 

Correct, I am now dloading a BF4 patch via origin...letsee how this goes

 

im at work right now.
Can someone tell what is changelog for this update?

 

Hahaha, what on earth did I buy that card for then?

 

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/news/view/bf4-mantle-live/last/

Looks good for MultiGPU!

Also, only Hawaii cards supported....

 

they kept that one quiet eh?

 

Apparently the 14.1 will be available here:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

I hope today, I can't believe DICE got Mantle patch before AMD's drivers haha, I didn't expect that!

 

r9 290/x and r7 260x only?? am i misunderstanding something there is a 7970 test in battlelog with improvement but wtf

 

I wait for this mantle for quite some time
and need to wait littlebit longer because it only supports Hawaii, R7 260X, and Kaveri at first.
I Hope AMD will release new drivers thats support other cards till Thief premiere.

 

The 2nd rig is running a 7970 and it got 25% boost. The high end rig got the biggest boost though, looks like multi gpu users will be happy.

 

will be happy but not today it seems.
johan andersson in a blog note on battlelog, at the end he mentioned

"This patch is the first release of our Mantle renderer. We will continue to add improvements, based on your feedback, in upcoming Battlefield 4 updates as well. In particular we plan to focus next on adding multi-GPU frame pacing and a few additional GPU performance and memory optimizations."

so crossfire not yet ready.

 

That's not what it says. It says there is no multi-GPU frame pacing, which is okay for me, let's see how it performs without it.

 

I spent so many months dealing with CF 6970 crossfire which was a stutter fest. if there's no frame pacing, that, for me, means there is no crossfire support;p

 

I feel you. Personally I haven't had issues on my previous 7970 CFX without frame-pacing, but that's because I'm not very sensitive to that (Unless it's a stutter fest), I am way more sensitive to using vsync and it's input lag.

We'll see how it plays with these two 290's.

 

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/news/view/bf4-mantle-live/last/

No 7 series support at the moment.

 

4. Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by Mantle in Battlefield 4.

 

So no R9 280X support yet? :bang:

 

UGH...

I guess we'll see whenever they release the 14.1 Beta drivers... I'd hate to have to wait for 14.2+ since they promised support for the 7000/R280 Series cards, with no mention of a delay.