14 DAY TRIAL // Back in late 2013, when Advanced Micro Devices released the Mantle application programming interface (API), it showed that game performance could rise by 45% compared to DirectX 11. Now, NVIDIA says that's no longer the case.
You might remember that, back in late March, I wrote about the driver that NVIDIA was preparing and how it promised better performance in DirectX 11 than Mantle.
Said driver has finally come out, along with the GeForce Experience 2.0 software.
Sure enough, in the benchmarks that NVIDIA posted, the three games that support Mantle ran better on GTX 780 Ti systems than on computers equipped with AMD Radeon R9 290X and running the Mantle API instead of DX.
The difference is largest in Star Swarm, but Battlefield 4 and Thief favored NVIDIA as well.
Below you can see the chart with the benchmark results for the trio of high-graphics, 3D game titles.
Independent reviewers have yet to confirm these claims, but I imagine they'll do it pretty quick now that they have a potential flame bait to toy with.
Mantle aside, the new NVIDIA 337.50 Beta driver optimizes both DirectX 11 and SLI performance by up to 71% and reduces game load time, among other things.
