Do you own a Radeon 7000-Series Graphics card? YOU WANT TO!

[0ptiC]

Many of you probably heard about AMD's new Mantle technology. Basically pissing directx in the face and accessing the graphics hardware directly. Virtually removing one of the last bottlenecks in modern gaming.
What many people don't know is that this technology already is featured in some of AMD's graphics cards currently on the market - i.e the HD7000 series.
The really nice twist here, is that Battlfield 4 is going to support Mantle. It is going to be the first AAA-title PC title to support this.
For anyone owning this card I can almost assure you that whatever FPS you're getting in the BF4 Beta with the debugger running, as going to atleast DOUBLE with this tech.
I am one of the lucky ones. I am currently running a Sapphire Radeon HD7950 Vapor-X GHz Edition @ 3GB.

Read more about it in this EuroGamer Article

And people, please stop complaining about bad frames and lag over all. Do note that DICE is running their DEBUGGER in the background of the game. It eats up so much of your performance.
But if you look at it this way, I'd rather play a little laggy beta and get a good final product than have it the other way around. Be patient boys and girls, it's going to get better.

Hope this brought joy to some of you out there.

[0ptiC]

More info about this can be found here.
Please bare in mind that I'm trying to be as objective as I possibly can considering I'm a hardcore AMD-graphics user.
If NVIDIA where the one to develop this or something similar before AMD, I'd probably be forced to swollow my pride and buy an NVIDIA-card.

[Faddn]

Nvida has developed similar solutions,we'll just have to wait and see how them compare.

[Kofeiini]

I once was AMD boy as well.. Then I bought NVIDIA card and never going back...

[evolunit]

AMD fan boy thats what you are Optic ...
i have to say iam nvidia guy too..ive seen so many my friends to have issues with amd cards that i will probably stick with nvidia for some time in the future
anyway its personal preference what you like more and discusssions whats is better are meaningles...

[0ptiC]

I agree totally with that evo. Not saying nvidia is worse than AMD, but I have a few reasons why I haven't gone with nvidia so far.
I will not bring them up now, since I know it'll only start a fanboy war.

But seriously though, I'd be looking in to this myself if I was an nvidia guy. I can assure you that.

[Faddn]

I don't buy graphics card because I like ATI/NVIDIA, I buy after reviews. I have just had 2 cards after 2006, Geforce 8800 ultra and now radeon 5970. Got a refund on the 8800 since it broke before the warranty expired .

[Aim]

wow I didn't know that! No wonder i was able to play the BETA with +-60 fps on ultra, I expercienced no lag whatsoever.. And i dont even have a high end PC

ATI HD7870 here

[0ptiC]

Well, the support for Mantle comes to Battlefield 4 in December. It was not implemented in the beta. Sadly.

[Aim]

Well, the support for Mantle comes to Battlefield 4 in December. It was not implemented in the beta. Sadly.

Ow, then that's even more promising though!

[Gotcha47]

I am the proud owner of 7950 card , so i welcome it !! At the moment bf4 has beautifull levels and if other games will support mantle, live will be good on the gaming !!

[The_Boss]

A little more until mantle is being put to use in BF4. They said it brings a whopping 45% perfomance boost. Way more than I expected.

At the moment I have HD6950 but I might buy a HD7970 or R9 280x too. (Because I am mining cryptocoin too)