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AMD Mantle BF4 and StarSwarm Testing Part 2 @ Legit Reviews
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 On February 1, 2014 AMD released the first public beta of the Catalyst 14.1 drivers as Beta 1.6 with Mantle support. Previously we tested Beta 1.5 drivers, and found it increased the performance of Battlefield 4 by 15.8% on a Sapphire Radeon R7 260X video card. As this is a new build, we wanted to do some additional testing, focusing on how well Mantle works with both video card and processor overclocking. The percent performance increase from DirectX to Mantle varies greatly and depends on the video card that you are using. AMD provided us with a slide that shows performance of four discrete graphics cards on teh AMD A10-7700K processor and the performance gains ranged from just around 6% on the AMD Radeon R9 270X to over 40% on the AMD Radeon R9 290X. We`ve been testing with an AMD Radeon R7 260X due to the affordability of the card and the fact that many gamers are using it since it supports both AMD Mantle and TrueAudio technologies. Read on to find out what happens with overclocking."
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AMD Mantle API Benchmark Performance On Catalyst 14.1 @ Legit Reviews
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AMD has been talking about the potential performance increase that their new Mantle technology is going to provide, we have all seen the numbers that AMD and EA-DICE has been releasing. AMD has finally released CATALYST 14.1 beta drivers, so now we can do our own independent testing to check out performance with and without Mantle enabled. Read on to see what happens to performance!"
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AMD Mantle API Benchmark Performance On Catalyst 14.1 @ Legit Reviews
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AMD has been talking about the potential performance increase that their new Mantle technology is going to provide, we have all seen the numbers that AMD and EA-DICE has been releasing. AMD has finally released CATALYST 14.1 beta drivers, so now we can do our own independent testing to check out performance with and without Mantle enabled. Read on to see what happens to performance!
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AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver Brings Mantle Support Frame Pacing Phase 2 HSA
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The potential for Mantle is still there and some of the impressive numbers that AMD is quoting with 40% performance improvements will at least keep me interested until the company can get the project wrapped up with bow on it for consumers. I WANT to believe in what AMD is showing us and I WANT it to succeed because I think PC gaming deserves a chance to showcase its capability and advantages over consoles. It is pretty obvious as this point that AMD should likely have waited a bit longer and worked a bit more with DICE to get Mantle ready."
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The Linux 3.13 Kernel Is A Must-Have For AMD RadeonSI Users
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The Linux 3.13 kernel that will be released in the very near future is very worth the upgrade if you are a RadeonSI user -- in particular, the Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer on the Gallium3D Linux graphics driver -- but other open-source graphics driver users as well may also see nice improvements in the new kernel release. Here`s some benchmarks showing off the gains found with the Linux 3.13 kernel for Radeon HD and R9 graphics cards."
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AMD Radeon Gallium3D Catches Up To Catalyst For Some Linux Games
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Yesterday I ran the latest RadeonSI Gallium3D vs. Catalyst AMD Linux driver comparison, effectively another round of open-source vs. closed-source GPU driver testing. In yesterday`s article it was found the RadeonSI performance is improving a lot but the AMD Catalyst Linux driver remains much faster. In this article are benchmarks of the older R600 Radeon Gallium3D driver compared to the Catalyst driver with graphics cards from the Radeon HD 6000 series and older where the open-source R600g driver provides support and in a more mature state."
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AMD Kaveri: Gallium3D vs. Catalyst Drivers
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Now having looked at the Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance, carried out an initial GPU comparison, and compared several Intel/AMD processors, our latest performance investigation with AMD`s A10-7850K Kaveri APU is looking at the Radeon R7 Graphics performance on Ubuntu Linux when using the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and then using the closed-source AMD Catalyst driver."
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RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Improving But Still Long Shot From Catalyst
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While NVIDIA`s binary driver is much faster and better than AMD`s Catalyst, on the open-source driver side is where AMD has been shining. While their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs and newer is not nearly as well off as their pre-HD 7000 series (R600g) Gallium3D driver, they are making progress. In this article are benchmarks showing the out of the box performance on Ubuntu 13.10 with the modern open-source driver, benchmarks with the latest kernel and Mesa and LLVM, and then the AMD Catalyst driver. A range of modern Radeon HD 7000 and R9 graphics processors were used for this open-source versus closed-source driver testing."
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AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL tested @ ocaholic
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Once more AMD has updated their Catalyst drivers and like always performance should be higher with the latest set. We`ve had a closer look at this driver version and ran a set of benchmarks and games on no less than 10 different AMD graphics cards, where there are models from the R9, HD 7000 and HD 6000 Series. Last but not least there are some rather surprising findings."
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NVIDIA G-SYNC Display Technology Explored
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Back in September at a press event held in Montreal, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced what he called "one of the most important works NVIDIA has done for computer graphics." The technology was called G-SYNC. G-SYNC is an end-to-end graphics and display architecture that starts with a Kepler-based GPU and ends with a G-SYNC module within a monitor.
To put it simply, what G-SYNC does is keep a display and the output from a Kepler-basd GPU in sync, regardless of frame rates or whether or not V-Sync is enabled.
Did we mention that G-SYNC is also compatible with 4K resolutions? It is, and we hope some manufacturers will make a 30-inch+ 4K display with this new NVIDIA technology on board. If they do, you can take our money right now.
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nvidia Shield @ LanOC Reviews
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This past year at CES Nvidia introduced a new mobile product called the Shield. At the time, even after having a little time to play with it on the show floor, you could say I wasn’t exactly excited about it. The idea of gaming on a tablet was starting to win me over but I just couldn’t imagine trying to carry around something so bulky. This past spring and summer I spent even more time gaming on my tablets, especially the Nexus 7. Emulators and an ever growing collection of games started to win me over. Add in Nvidia’s changes to their drivers and the possibility of being able to stream PC gaming to the Shield and by the time it launched I had been converted into a full on fan of the device. Now nearly a year after its introduction I can finally sit down and talk about my experience with the Shield. Did it live up to my expectations? Read on time find out.
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AMD Catalyst 2013 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review
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After earlier this month delivering the 2013 NVIDIA Linux Year-In-Review, an annual article I`ve been writing for both AMD and NVIDIA since 2005 to cover the Linux driver and support improvements made each passing year, it`s now time to take a look at the Catalyst Linux driver releases from 2013. While NVIDIA added many new features to their Linux driver, enhanced many existing features, and continued delivering first-rate Linux GPU support at launch-time, it`s not been the same for AMD`s Linux team."
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Futuremark 3DMark v1.2.250 Released
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The new 3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your hardware. With three all new tests you can bench everything from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. And it`s not just for Windows. With 3DMark you can compare your scores with Android, iOS, Windows RT devices too. It`s the most powerful and flexible benchmark Futuremark ever created. * Added Ice Storm Unlimited test enabling you to compare scores against latest Android and iOS devices. * 3DMark now uses the GPU-Z library for improved GPU hardware detection. * Hardware monitoring performance graphs show clock speeds and temperatures for CPU and GPU once again. Download"
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Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Works On Some GeForce 700 GPUs Fails On Others
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With being in the process of checking out several new NVIDIA GeForce 700 GPUs on Linux, now that I have out of the way the GeForce GTX 760 / 770 / 780 Ti / TITAN Linux benchmarks and Windows vs. Linux NVIDIA benchmarks, I decided to see how these four Kepler graphics cards are working with Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver that`s written through clean-room reverse-engineering. Up until recently Nouveau has just been an open-source community project, except now NVIDIA is beginning to support Nouveau and open-source, so let`s see how it runs on this latest high-end graphics hardware."
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