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welcome back to tech yes City and today I'm gonna talk to you guys about mantle so recently I purchased the 99 270 and I got to do some benchmarking with it and I got to have a bit of fun with this car now the reason why I got this card was because it's a little bit of a long story but I had to I couldn't basically use the gtx 670 of work after I had finished making videos for the school so they want to put it back in their main rig and that's fair enough so I managed to purchase one of these and I wanted to test the name d card because a lot of people have been telling me good things and now this card is definitely good value for money at 190 dollars if you want to check out the review for this card i will put the link in the description below for you guys however today I'm going to be specifically testing mantle on battlefield 4 because I wanted to run some tests for myself and anyway let's get on with the results ok so moving I'll on to benchmarks I've got two different tests here I did a single player test this was done on the test range again we did 25 seconds three times on each and this time around interesting thing about comparing dx11 to mantle was that I had to use a actual command in the console because I wasn't able to use fraps with mental so you had to type in Perth overlay frame file login able 1 and 0 you had to toggle with that to enable and disable it so I did that and initially I use fraps for dx11 however i did get slightly higher results are slightly lower FPS scores when i did this on the dx11 however when I did compare apples to apples when I typed the same console command into the dx11 scores this is what I got and I decided to use the apples apples comparison right if I'm using the console command for mantle then I'm going to use it for dx11 as well so when I did the tests on both using the same console command and calculating the average FPS I actually couldn't calculate minimum or maximum because it only displayed CPU draw time frame draw times which you then had to calculate the average and divide that into one so anyway we did that and we got here the average school on dx11 was I think it was 70 7.51 frames per second so it was that was good on the single-player benchmarks I did this was an ultra two times msaa speeds we then moved on now to and I had the card overclocked for all these tests because I think that's if you're running a graphics card like an eye on 270 especially the 272 9270 actually may wish to think about overclocking but the 270 should definitely overclocking it for free performance so that's what I did now we went over to the single player here on mantle we got 70 7.86 so there was virtually no difference between the two I will put my link my the spec of my rig in the description below but my CP was clocked at 4.6 gig it is a 4670k so it is pretty much one of the better gaming CPUs out there and so yeah there was just absolutely no difference in single player I was kind of surprised I thought mantle was going to make a difference it made absolutely no difference in single player both were very playable both seem very smooth now moving over to the multiplayer benchmarks this is when mantle did score slightly higher however I will reiterate that this is a multiplayer benchmark and there is going to be variance so now I've played on operate I played on a level called operation Locker it was team deathmatch and basically I joined the game and I could quickly it was the start of the game so I could do the benchmark on dx11 and then I could quit changed a mantle and do the same benchmark so it's pretty much done with the same players same map and we found that the single player here scored 76.5 five frames per second and when we move over to mantle we scored 70 9.33 so there was a slight increase in fps however I would put that down to variance as it is a multiplayer benchmarking if I probably ran this a few times would get some differing results and one thing I will tell you about mantle is when I was running this benchmark there was some really big stutters going on with me too I didn't notice this on dx11 so I thought meh it was hard to say but yeah I wouldn't if I was playing multiplayer or single player with BF 4 i'd probably be sticking to dx11 that's just because of the the multiplayer stuttering was some of the stuttering that happened was actually pretty damn huge so anyway let's move on now to the conclusion so in conclusion I can i mean when i did my tests i found that there was virtually no difference between dx11 and mantle on my r9 270 I thought AMD said there was about a seven or eight percent increase if you have a high performance or CPU like a 4670k I have a force examined again i collected 24.6 gigs mind you but i found there was just no difference I mean it might make a difference in CPU intensive k times but definitely in GPU bounce scenarios I found there was no difference at all so the single player benchmark it was virtually identical the multiplayer benchmark there was like I think there was three a difference of 3 FPS and you I mean if I ran that test numerous times I would have probably have gotten different results so it was a multiplayer benchmark so anyway yeah in conclusion I will say that this graphics card is great value for money but I wouldn't be buying it for the sole purpose of mantle if you're a bear for player if you're maybe other games they might implement it a lot better but definitely as it stands this thing on battlefield 4 this is the latest drivers by the way I'm using the latest driver set as of March 26 this was the latest beta drivers it just didn't yeah it didn't show me any viable increase it didn't show me anything and if anything I thought dx11 played more smooth I mean there was some big stutters going on when I used mantel so I don't know what's going on there either so all in all in a nutshell I yeah I mean for battle for I just can't really see what the big deal with mantle is so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this review if you have any questions or comments please leave a comment comment section below and if you haven't already subscribed attack yes city where I'll be coming back with more juicy tech videos for you guys if you haven't already i'll put the link in the description below for the r9 270 review of this graphics card it is a really nice graphics card it is a nice mid-range reasonably priced graphics car great for a mid-range build anyway I'll catch you guys later bye