jimmysmitty :
I think Mantle will be useful only when they start to support lower end GPUs and it benefits them. If you get 120FPS in DX11, another 5-10FPS means nothing.
Current games have been developed with the DX overhead in mind. Thus the MANTLE version only provides about 20-60% improvement. MANTLE true potential will be on next gen games, which will increase the number of draw calls by about 10x. This is what the Oxide demo on Kaveri was about
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