DirectX 12 does well on AMD R9 290X and FX-8370

Now that Futuremark has released a new update for 3DMark which brings 3DMark API Overhead benchmark, AMD was quite keen to show some performance figures on its Radeon R9 290X graphics card, as well as performance scaling on the octa-core FX-8370 CPU.

For measuring difference between DX11, DX12 and Mantle APIs

Futuremark has released a new 3DMark update with the new API Overhead feature test, meant to measure the difference in DirectX 11, DirectX 12 and Mantle API performance.

Focus on DirectX 12 instead

It looks like the Mantle API developed by AMD is slowly reaching its end of its useful life.

Three cool games coming soon

Releases Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta drivers for Mantle support

Better performance and lower CPU overhead

AMD scores some big titles, including GTA V

Mantle Steam Machines anyone?

Johan Andersson talks Mantle in Battlefield 4

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