Mantle shows great performance gains with Thief on lower end systems

Mantle shows great performance gains with Thief on lower end systems.

AMD has been boasting about the benefits of Mantle for quite some time and so far the results have been a mixed bag of good and bad, but overall show AMD moving in the right direction. Now that Thief has made its way back unto the gaming scene after a 10-year hiatus AMD wants to show off their latest API. To do so the people in black and red provided some in-house examples of how well Mantle works with Thief based off their own testing. Obviously AMD is not competing on the high-end of the spectrum since they now hold no position in that desktop market.

Instead AMD focused on testing with what they consider to be the price savvy sweet spot in the market with CPUs priced within the $150-200 Range. Since AMD also wants you to pair up their motherboard CPUs and GPUs into on nice bundle and to do so they made up a couple of systems to get their results. Mantle looks like it is helping Thief along by at least a small margin performance wise, and that is cool. Below you will see the 4 different system configurations AMD used in their testing and many people probably have a similar setup of their own if they are an AMD system user.

System 1

▪   AMD FX-8350

▪   AMD Radeon R9 280X

▪   1080p, maximum settings

▪   19 percent performance uplift with Mantle (45->53.8 fps)

System 2

▪   AMD FX-8350

▪   AMD Radeon R9 290X

▪   1080p, maximum settings

▪   49 percent performance uplift with Mantle (46->69.6 fps)

System 3

▪   Intel Core i5 4670K

▪   AMD Radeon R9 280X

▪   1080p, maximum settings

▪   5 percent performance uplift with Mantle (52.6->55.2 fps)

System 4

▪   AMD A10-7700K

▪   AMD Radeon R7 260X

▪   1080p, high settings

23 percent performance uplift with Mantle (28->34.6 fps)

As you can see AMD has steered clear of any super high-end systems and that is all well and good as Mantle was not made to make those systems faster as they should already be fast, but lower to mid level systems usually see a good performance bump. Another thing of note is that Thief is thee first game to support TrueAudio so that in itself will be an interesting thing. TrueAudio is supposed to have superior audio positioning that also incorporates the echoes like you are in a real life environment. System 4 has very low specs and before Mantle it was almost a non-playable game, but after Mantle “Boom Baby” showing that those with lower end systems will get the most benefits from AMD latest API.  Thanks for reading and Happy Hump day, just don’t hump my leg please, LOL

Source: Maximum PC