Project Mantle is one of AMD’s most innovative and game-changing features, delivered with the Radeon™ R9 and R7 Series product line. There is also the new Mantle API which promises to dominate NVIDIA, especially in titles such as Battlefield 4. Games featuring this DirectX® 11 technology are considerably faster than they were on the previous generation of AMD Radeon™ products.
The GCN Architecture also benefits from dramatically improved tessellation performance. The GCN Architecture is designed for improved utilization, which ensures that the GPU is making optimal use of its resources for maximum performance. This seems like such a simple idea, but designing a GPU to frequently approach its peak theoretical performance is a challenge the GCN Architecture tackles with ease. Starting with GPU utilization, AMD has taken great strides to ensure that the GCN Architecture is capable of efficiently using its hardware resources. It takes a truly great design, like the GCN Architecture, to effectively utilize that potential for real-world performance.īelow you will find just a few examples of how this truly next-generation architecture delivers on one very simple design goal: enable the world's most powerful graphics cards.1 In simple terms, increasing the number of transistors in a GPU has a big impact on the potential performance of a graphics card-but transistors alone are not enough.
Coupled with the dramatic rise of GPU-aware programming languages like C++ AMP and OpenCL™, the GCN Architecture is truly the right architecture for the right time. Equipped with up to 32 compute units (2048 stream processors), each containing a scalar coprocessor, AMD's 28nm GPUs are more than capable of handling workloads-and programming languages-traditionally exclusive to the processor. Designed to push not only the boundaries of DirectX® 11.2 gaming, the GCN Architecture is also AMD's first design specifically engineered for general computing.
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