Testing AMD’s Mantle

Test Systems and Procedures

Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system and thank those sponsors who kindly provided us with test equipment to make our work possible. We offer our thanks to:

AMD for supplying us with an FX-8350 processor, which we reviewed here, the FX-4100 processor, which we reviewed here, and the 8GB 1866MHz AMD Radeon Memory Performance Series kit.

Kingston for supplying us with a Hyper X 3K 240GB solid state drive, which we reviewed here.

XFX for supplying us with an R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB graphics card, which we reviewed here.

Corsair for supplying us with a Hydro Series H100i liquid CPU cooler, which we reviewed here.

Be Quiet for supplying us with a Straight Power E9 680W power supply unit, which we reviewed here.

ASUS for supplying us with a Crosshair V Formula 990FX AM3+ motherboard, which we reviewed here.

Lian Li for supplying us with a PC-T60A test bench.

Noctua for supplying us with NT-H1 thermal compound.

Test System:

• Motherboard – Asus Crosshair V Formula 990FX AM3+ Motherboard
• Processor – AMD FX-8350 and FX-4100, both stock with Turbo enabled
• Graphics Card: XFX R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB with AMD Catalyst 14.6 RC2 drivers
• RAM – 8GB (2 X 4GB) AMD Radeon Memory Performance Series 9-10-9-27 1866MHz
• CPU Cooler – Corsair H100i with Quiet Fan Profile
• Power Supply – Be Quiet Straight Power E9 680W
• Main Storage Drive – Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
• Chassis – Lian Li T60 Test Bench
• Displays – LG IPS234 23 inch 1080p display
• Operating System – Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit

Games Used

• Battlefield 4
• Plants vs Zombies
• Thief

Resolution(s) Used

• 1920 x 1080