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What graphic card should we buy at this point directx 12 or. Mantle

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August 14, 2014 12:49:21 PM

The problem here is guys i currently own this system


Processor - INTEL i7 4790k devils canyon(haswell refresh)
Motherboard- ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS MAXIMUS VII HERO
RAM- G.SKILL RIPJAWSX 2x4GB 2133mhz
Cooler- corsair h80i liquid cooler with noctua nt-h1
Graphic card- SAPPHIRE R9 280x VAPOX 3gb
PSU- COOLER MASTER silent pro M 850w
CABINET- corsair air 540 HIGH AIRFLOW (with 3x CM jetflows and 2x CORSAIR AF140)
Lighting- NZXT HUE RGB Controller
Fan controller- NZXT GRID fan controller
Harddisk- WD caviar green 500Gb



What should i do go forward and buy another r9 280x that supports mantle

Or i should get a gtx 770 sli or r9 290x

770 sli wont work as it would be expensive for me

My location is india

What should i do buy a directx 12 card or a r9 280x

Some sites reveal that directx 12 would have larger cover for games than mantle

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August 14, 2014 1:01:30 PM

Mantle is as-yet unproven. The theory behind Mantle is that it reduces load on the CPU by giving programmers a more efficient code translation to the GPU.

However, modern CPUs are rarely the bottleneck in gaming due to the fact that they're often the fastest component (relative to which hardware components do the most work in the context of a game) in the system.

Some games, such as very complex Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are quite taxing on the CPU, but most FPS (First Person Shooter), Racing Games and Adventure Games don't particularly strain the CPU. Furthermore, there aren't any RTS games announced (as yet) as being optimised for Mantle.

However, if you support the idea behind Mantle and want to vote with your wallet, an AMD card would be the right choice.

Ultimately, you won't see a performance loss with a Mantle card when running non-Mantle games, so you aren't risking much.

The present industry climate requires that I recommend DX12 as the 'safer' option. However, Microsoft claim that it will be backwards compatible with all recent Nvidia cards so you have a large selection to choose from.

AMD are the underdog, but their GPUs, with the correct cooling, often outperform Nvidia's options.
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August 14, 2014 1:06:39 PM

Hmmm u mean that i have to put out my current graphics card and buy a new directx 12 card??
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August 14, 2014 1:08:32 PM

Sn1992 said:
Hmmm u mean that i have to put out my current graphics card and buy a new directx 12 card??


Your R9 280x is a very capable card for modern games. I wouldn't upgrade my GPU unless I was seeing very poor performance.

I bet Mantle will be a strong competitor to DX12 and AMD will no-doubt make their future cards compatible with both.
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August 22, 2014 9:53:02 AM

DX12, mantle right now is more like a prerelease of DX12 anyway. And in real world checks, offers no proven performance increase. Benchmarks for this don't really show that mantle is doing anything, only that the card is working. So it could be Mantle, but it could also just be good old driver updates.

DX12 actually does something, it improves multicore/hyperthreading performance by actually balancing the load accross multiple threads. Right now games leverage 85% of the first thread, and the rest of the load accross the other threads. DX12 leverages 45% of the first thread and the rest across the others.

In addition DX12 also improves texture compression so higher resolutions require less VRAM, and lower bus widths, and all currentely supported GPU's will be able to use these features.

In short, DX12 we are looking at 35% better performance, and Mantle offering 3-5% possible perforamance that may actually just be driver optimizations.
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August 22, 2014 10:11:36 AM

All AMD and NVIDIA video cards released in the last year will fully support DX12 anyway, so not sure what are the deliberations about.

AMD: All GCN+ cards will fully support DX12
NVIDIA: All Kepler+ cards will fully support DX12
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