Star Swarm: GPU melting tech demo worth a look

[SpliFF]

Tried out this tech demo. It's intended for Freelancer-style space sims and such but with an emphasis on pushing around as many ships as possible (5000+).

http://store.steampowered.com/app/267130/

They are planning a Mantle version as well which will hopefully bring some clarity to the pro/con Mantle debate. If you take AMDs claims at face value the Mantle version should be 9x faster but I suspect the reality will be more like 1.5x (even assuming you aren't CPU-bound).

DISCLAIMER: No responsibility accepted if this demo causes a critical core meltdown and irradiates your home town.

[smoth]

lol that looks awesome

[Silentwings]

From what I read it seemed like mantle was getting maybe 10-20% over the same games on same cards without it, which is a bit short of the old 9x mark xD

[Funkencool]

Looks like Star Swarm does fair much better on Mantle.
http://hothardware.com/News/AMD-Mantle- ... tar-Swarm/