AMD Catalyst Beta Adds Mantle Support

AMD Catalyst Beta Adds Mantle Support
[Feb 02, 2014, 11:38 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

AMD now offers Catalyst version 14.1 beta drivers for Windows and Linux, a bit of a delay from the most recent plan to have these out by Friday. Among other things, the new beta drivers offer support for AMD's new Mantle API through the just-released patch for Battlefield 4. Here's word on the Mantle beta:

Mantle Beta driver support

AMD’s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC

Performance gains of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series

Performance gains of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle

It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:

AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs

AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs

AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs

AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs