What's the hottest new GPU technology this season?

arbiter · Nov 17, 2013

Agility said:
You do realise that your POV is actually fully based on Nvidia Fan-boy? No pun intended but G-Sync is a good but stupidly PR stunt by Nvidia to allow only their cards to use it. It not only increases "exclusive" costs on already over-priced 1440P monitors but loses its use BECAUSE only Nvidia card can.

Maybe you should read my comment completely before AMD fanboying it up.

"I hope over next few years, all monitors use or do something similar to g-sync and ditch the fixed refresh rate crap that was kept in from old CRT monitor's."

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Nov 18, 2013

AMD Mantle definitely... I just hope AMD's software dept. is beefed up and aggressive in terms of updating it frequently and supporting it. No doubt that Mantle's first few iteration will have lots of issues.

aameghoo · Nov 19, 2013

I personally went with G-sync and this is coming from someone with 2 unlocked 6950's. Don't get me wrong im excited for mantle too but g-sync just takes the cake for me. Whats 52 FPS vs 64 FPS in Battlefield 4 when you still get some stuttering at 64 FPS. If g-sync really delivers what it claims then 52 FPS will appear smoother than 64 FPS without g-sync and that to me is a game changer. I can't count how many times I get frustrated with stuttering even locked in at a constant 60 FPS. Also I would imagine that inevitable drops in frame-rate will be less noticeable with g-sync due to the dynamic refresh-rate. Once g-sync comes out and if reviews show it's not just a PR stunt I will be upgrading to that asus monitor and grabbing a Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti OC.

I do wish it's open like mantle and not require a certain monitor and gpu combo but since i'm due for upgrades it pretty much works out for me. THIS ARTICLE at anandtech explains g-sync pretty good

Durvelle27 · Nov 19, 2013

AMD Mantle for me

BiggieShady · Nov 19, 2013

Mantle closely won over g-sync for me ... very closely and mostly because it's open and it can work with any GPU architecture ... and with G-sync we'll finally say bye bye to screen tearing

Easy Rhino · Nov 19, 2013

Mantle, so long that is not snake oil.

jigar2speed · Nov 21, 2013

Easy Rhino said:
Mantle, so long that is not snake oil.

X2 - Hoping the same.

ensabrenoir · Nov 24, 2013

Easy Rhino said:
Mantle, so long that is not snake oil.

What? amd is the people's company! They would never heavily hype something and then slowly stop taking about it as it gets closer to market. and go shiny press release with no substance when it releases. :rolleyes:

Gotta admit though they have had some nice ideas lately........ and they've gotten them to market before they're become obsolete...... so im hoping for the best on this one

NeoXF · Dec 31, 2013

Fourstaff said:
Shadowplay for me, I can record games without taking a crazy massive hit on cpu now.

Capture card?

Ja.KooLit · Dec 31, 2013

AMD mantle.... if it does even exist up to now... lol

Fourstaff · Dec 31, 2013

NeoXF said:
Capture card?

Additional expense (and slot) no longer needed

roki977 · Dec 31, 2013

Shadow play gets my vote bcs. it exists in public. I cant vote for Mantle. It is not even out yet and I am not sure that thing even exist.

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What's the hottest new GPU technology this season?

What's the hottest new GPU technology this season?

AMD Mantle

NVIDIA G-Sync

NVIDIA ShadowPlay

AMD TrueAudio

DirectX 11.2

I just want one of the new consoles

None of the above

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