AMD demonstrates the A-series “Kaveri” and Mantle with Battlefield 4 on November 11

Following a delay, the launch of the AMD A-series “Kaveri” will be delayed until February 2014 for desktops and sometime later in the first half of the year for laptops. However, the company does not intend to let architecture miss the APU13 developer conference, also known as the 2013 AMD Developer Summit, in San Jose, USA.

During the conference, AMD will announce, or at least give a taste of Kaveri, which is equipped with four cores in two modules according to the architecture Steamroller. It includes a graphics component with the latest generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) and 512 stream processors as well as the memory architecture HUMA.

Johan Andersson at DICE will also attend the event to discuss Battlefield 4 and rendering with the Mantle API, which is specially adapted for the GCN graphics architecture in the Radeon HD 7000 series and beyond.

Among other things, Mantle will deliver nine times more drawing calls per second and have a lower overhead than DirectX. The interface also allows programmers to work closer to the hardware and gain direct access to the graphics processor’s features. In addition, AMD talks about “perfect parallelization” with several processor cores.

Source: Techpowerup.