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Final Thoughts
We’ve held off on testingMantlefor two reasons.
First and foremost, Mantle is sketchy in Hardline right now and we often saw performance decrease.
The second problem is Origin.
We were forced use four different accounts to produce this article!
hey retry later."
Ohh how I long for a Steam version of Hardline.
As you might imagine these pointless anti-piracy measures made testing slow and somewhat painful.
Hopefully these accounts will allow hardware changes again soon so we can do more testing.
Gaming at multi-monitor resolutions or high single monitor resolutions such as 2560x1600 will require a seriously powerful GPU.
The R9 290 and R9 290X averaged just 46fps and 50fps while theGTX 980managed 53fps.
TheGTX Titan Xproved its mettle here delivering 70fps.
The AMD FX series was only slightly behind the performance of Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 processors.
