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AMD Radeon Supercharges Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth With Mantle Graphics API

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Sil­ky Smooth Game­play, Out­stan­ding Per­for­mance for Empires of All Sizes

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 10/24/14 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today joins Fira­xis Games in cele­bra­ting the release of Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™, which fea­tures day-one sup­port for AMD’s Man­t­le gra­phics API to enable top gam­ing per­for­mance for AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics customers.

“AMD Rade­on™ GPUs with Man­t­le are over a year ahead of other gra­phics com­pa­nies in deli­ve­ring high-through­put, high-effi­ci­en­cy gra­phics to gamers and deve­lo­pers,” said Matt Skyn­ner, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Pro­duct and Plat­form Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness Unit, AMD. “As gamers sett­le in for a mara­thon ses­si­on of Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on: Bey­ond Earth, we’­re proud that the potent com­bi­na­ti­on of Man­t­le and the award-win­ning Gra­phics Core Next archi­tec­tu­re effort­less­ly enable the defi­ni­ti­ve expe­ri­ence.“1

Man­t­le is a “low-over­head” gra­phics API that can help impro­ve per­for­mance for gamers by making bet­ter use of mul­ti-core CPUs, stream­li­ning game code exe­cu­ti­on, vir­tual­ly eli­mi­na­ting soft­ware bot­t­len­ecks and uti­li­zing GPU resour­ces with incre­di­ble effi­ci­en­cy.2

In per­for­mance test­ing, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X GPU with Man­t­le ren­de­red Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ at hig­her frame rates than any other sin­gle-GPU gra­phics card.3 Gamers loo­king to secu­re Mantle’s blis­te­ring per­for­mance for their own empires can do so today with the purcha­se of an AMD Rade­on™ R9 or R7 Series GPU start­ing at just $99 USD.4

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1 Sel­ect AMD Rade­on gra­phic cards are based on the GCN Archi­tec­tu­re and include its asso­cia­ted fea­tures (AMD Power­Tu­ne tech­no­lo­gy, AMD Zero­Co­re Power tech­no­lo­gy, PCI Express 3.0, etc.). Not all fea­tures are sup­port­ed by all pro­ducts — check with your sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic model capabilities.

2 Man­t­le appli­ca­ti­on sup­port is required.

3 In Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ inter­nal bench­mark test at 3840x2160, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X 8GB with Man­t­le out­per­forms the GeForce GTX 980 with DirectX® 11, NVIDIA’s hig­hest-per­forming sin­gle-GPU gra­phics card as of Octo­ber 20, 2014, by 45.38 avera­ge FPS to 44.89 avera­ge FPS using the Ultra in-game pre­set with 8xAA. Test sys­tem: Intel Core i7-4960X, 16GB DDR3-1866, Asus SABERTOOTH X79, Win­dows 8.1 x64, AMD Cata­lyst™ 14.9.2 Beta and Force­Wa­re 344.16 WHQL.

4 AMD sug­gest e‑tail pri­ce (SEP) as of Octo­ber 23, 2014.