AMD on the use of Mantle in Civilization: Beyond Earth

Long-awaited strategy Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, Last week, among other features, boasts support for API Mantle from AMD. This low-level graphical interface involves the advantages of multi-core CPUs and gives gamers additional advantages, optimizing the execution of the game code, eliminating program errors and more efficiently using GPU resources.

“AMD Radeon video cards with MANTLE support offer high-performance and highly efficient graphics for gamers and developers, – notes Matt Skinner (Matt Skynner), vice president and general manager of the division of component and platform solutions in AMD. – at a time when gamers around the world are preparing for long sessions in Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth, We are proud that the powerful combination of the MANTLE API and Architecture Graphics Core Next will get amazing impressions of the game “.

In order to visually demonstrate the benefits of Mantle on the example CIVILIZATION: Beyond Earth, specialists AMD conducted a series of tests in which the RADEON R9 290X performance with the GEFORCE family video cards from NVIDIA, and built on the basis of the results obtained here is such a schedule.