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AMD Catalyst Mantle Driver Delayed

Crap Daddy said:
The idea behind mantle is purely a business decision and from what I understood from these controlled benchmarks
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But aren't all benchmarks controlled one way or another o_O

Also its Feb 1st somewhere so now give us the dam driver already!!!
 
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I was trying to say they were done and released by the companies who produced the software and not by independent reviewers. I can't wait to see those but it seems there's no driver available yet.
 
Crap Daddy said:
I was trying to say they were done and released by the companies who produced the software and not by independent reviewers. I can't wait to see those but it seems there's no driver available yet.
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Ahh I hear ya and me too!

Bring it to us already!!!!
 
To delay a beta driver, the issue had to have been catastrophic. AMD released beta drivers every few days during the end of last year, and even though those semiweekly releases had major issues all their own, AMD still released them.

I want frame pacing support, yet it gets tied up due to an issue in Mantle and delayed again. But what's another 36 hours after waiting 3 months past their promised date?
 
Press gets it 24 hour ahead of public. Some sites already have the driver.

Some time today it should be out for all of us.
 
only for Kaveri 7850K APU
 
Battlefield 4 Medium Quality 720P 1080P

AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) DX11 162 160
AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) Mantle 102 102


Battlefield 4 Ultra Quality DX11 720P 1080P

AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) DX11 90 78
AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) Mantle 150 86

Those are some interesting numbers. Interesting if they are not typo. :)
 
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Let me get this straight.... This patch was to be released in the middle of December. First it was DICE that was at blame for the delay of implementation. DICE finally launches their patch and all of a sudden AMD finds a critical bug at the very last minute? WTF was the driver team doing the last month and half? You would think a reputable company would actually have some foresight into such issues considering they were afforded an additional month and half to implement these drivers...

Knows issues with the current Mantle driver build:

Now I am not too interested in the issues as they will be solved and this is a Beta driver, but it does tell the current state of what current product are actually supported, have a peek.

  • Press evaluation build: Installing AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta on top of an existing AMD Catalyst revision may cause a system hang. Ensure the provided installation instructions are utilized to avoid this issue.
  • Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire technology in BattleField 4
  • 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.
  • Multi-GPU support under DirectX and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
  • Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
  • AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
  • Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4
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