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today's video is made possible by huge plus for a free extended two-week trial period pet / hulu plus com /t OT gamers and for those out there who spend almost all day long playing games and for those who are AMD fans welp you can say that the shiz nika's literally hit the fan because mantle it hath arrived in this video is all about mental what it tastes like what it smells like is it yummy is that tasty mental sandwich now case you guys don't know the 14.1 beta drivers the catalyst ones came out from AMD we also have those linked down below in the description in case for some reason you don't have them currently right now star swarm and battlefield 4 the only games right now that can actually take advantage of this API know the r7 and r9 cards that are out right now those are all supported you can also use the 7000 and 8000 series gpus as well as the 810 and a eight 7000 series ap use now for those out there were completely clueless or going hey what is mantle well mantle is a new type of API like OpenGL or direct decks only this one comes directly from AMD and it's meant for game developers and gamers alike to be able to take more control over their gaming environment now the initial perception is that mantle allows a much higher amount of draw calls per frame resulting in a significant boost in GPU performance across all AMD video cards the reality is mantle is geared to improve performance by reducing the workload on the cpu what the actual results are however are this performance gains depend on how CPU heavy the game is and should offer bigger improvements users with entry to mid-level processors so essentially it's this the people who are going to see the most significant boost are those people who have actually lower end CPUs why is this well because if you're taking all that information off that it's not going to matter if you have a super high-end CPU or low n CPU which means you know you save money so you've got an entry-level CPU high-end GPU a lot of people always talk about this especially in system builds like hey put all the money into the GPU and basically screw the CPU just put the money the GPU well now you will actually be able to take advantage of that and it will become a reality when you'll be able to offload all the stuff from the cpu on to the GPU your cpu's not really going to matter and that's one point about mantle that I'm really looking forward to seeing in the future few folks who follow the challenge you've probably seen our test bench if not i'll have a link back here behind what you guys can actually check out the video of our new test bench it's actually really cool we're using an i7 4770k I know this isn't probably the best platform for doing it but we've in all other testing on it and we're using this lovely gigabyte 290x card on it for our testing and you'll check out our results and we think they're pretty good for initial results from mantle we're looking forward to more in the future but for now initially let's just check that out so the first game up is battlefield 4 on its ultra settings now we had our monitor at 1440p the first score is directx 3d where we saw 58 point 12 average frames per second we switched over to mal we see 60 1.87 average frames per second so not really much there at all now in 1080p with DirectX 3d we saw 86.7 t6 average frames per second why with mantle we saw 92.6 seven average frames per second so not too much of a jump there at all in battlefield 4 with our test setup now one thing to take note of folks mantle does not work with fraps so if you're out there trying to figure out hey how the hell do I calculate my frames per second check out our link down the description will have that information for you folks as well now the next game benchmark we used is called star swarm this did not require fraps whatsoever and with that using mantle we saw almost 20 frames per second of an increase now that's pretty cool considering that we're using the i7 4770k you can see 20 frames per second hey that's nothing to snuff at now usually in the past when I went out and I bought a bunch of video cards and tested them you usually see about 10 frames per second per card up grain which means if you out of 280 and you have to like a 280x you see 10 frames per second well with this it would be like going up 3 cards because you're getting you know 25 per second so instead of getting yourself you know AMD 290x it would be a to 90 x plus plus so that's actually really cool I think for people out there with AMD cards you're going to be pretty damn stood with this information and these scores so it's a score up and for mental I think that's pretty damn significant for right out the gate so far we've talked about all of the good things about Manta but now let's talk about some it's a bit controversial and kind of on the negative side but it's actually more default actually of dice they've admitted so than actually AMD and what's this well what's happening in battlefield 4 and we actually the screenshots down below to show you guys is that even though the frame rates might be increasing the quality of the picture is decreasing now this is kind of like I'm not really a good thing i'm sure dice is going to pick up their game you like that one dice going to pick up their game and they're going to fix this but right now there's a little bit of controversy around that I know many people play battlefield 4 so few folks out there you've noticed this hey man leave me a comment down below and let's see you know what your experience has been but overall from what I can see mantle out of the gate is a pretty good success now before i bounce on out of here i want to give a huge shout out and thanks to hulu plus for making this video possible and for supporting the channel so i know many of you pc users out there know what hulu is but do you guys really know what hulu plus is because who plus is like a whole different level hulu plus is 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and even though dice may have you know crumbled on the game right there a little bit i'm sure they'll pick things up and fix all of these problems now for you folks out there I know you guys have lots and lots of different systems out there and we're gonna have an article in this over on our website wtae.com which will be down the description as well we want to hear from you folks you know how we love to interact with you post give a big virtual hug doll you guys let me hear what your guys's system and what you guys have seen from mantle thus far we love to hear your opinions we want to know what you guys are seeing me because there's a broader much more of you people out there there is us we have our test system way of what we do here but there's a whole world and all view people around the world or AMD fans are out testing the crap out of this right now so we love you if you're not subscribed to challenge you like what you see here make it hit on that like button and also subscribe 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