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On MaximumPC.com's No BS podcast - there's video, too. the article and podcast are here and at 13:43 into the podcast, there is mention of Star Citizen, just a short one. one quote - "Chris Roberts says he wants to melt GPUs" -
Star Swarm is a real-time demo of Oxide Games’ Nitrous engine, which pits two AI-controlled fleets against each other in a furious space battle. Originally conceived as an internal stress test, Oxide decided to release Star Swarm so that the public can share our vision of what we think the future of gaming can be. The simulation in Star Swarm shows off Nitrous’ ability to have thousands of individual units onscreen at once, each running their own physics, AI, pathfinding, and threat assessments. Note:Star Swarm is not a deterministic simulation -- the AI and everything else is being computed in real time, so you will get slightly different results from multiple executions even on the same hardware. Unfortunately, achieving 100% determinism with the highly threaded nature of the Nitrous engine is an unrealistic goal. http://store.steampowered.com/app/267130/ So, lets start. I believe this will be a useful tool to stress our components and compare our system performance. Star Swarm supports mantle so it would be interesting way to compare AMD's API to Direct X.. I have a mediocre gaming rig that's a couple years old. Intel 2500k @ 4.6 8gb Corsair XMP @ 1600mhz Asus 560ti @ 900mhz Star Swarm settings Scenario: Follow Settings: Extreme Stress Test: Timed Run (6 min) Start D3D Average FPS: 26.99
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So I've been really interested in Mantle, mostly because it could possibly be the one thing that would pull me away from my love of Nvidia cards. However, after reading this article, I'm not so sure. Thoughts, anyone? http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/175676-amds-mantle-finally-emerges-turns-out-its-actually-for-boosting-low-end-cpus-not-gpus
