Advanced Anti-Aliasing features for MSAA/EQAA optimizations.Data formats optimizations via flexible buffer/image access.Asynchronous compute queue for overlapping of compute and graphics workloads.Asynchronous DMA queue for data uploads independent from the graphics engine.Explicit control of resource compression, expands and synchronizations.Reduction of command buffers submissions.While Mantle provides some built-in features to improve GPU-bound performance, gains in these cases are largely dependent on how well Mantle features and optimizations are being utilized by the game engine. Mantle was also designed to improve situations where high resolutions and 'maximum detail' settings are used, although to a somewhat lesser degree, as these settings tax GPU resources in a way that is more difficult to improve at the API level. Multithreaded parallel CPU rendering support for at least 8 cores.AMD claims that Mantle can generate up to 9 times more draw calls per second than comparable APIs by reducing CPU overhead.Reduced runtime shader compilation overhead.Close to linear performance scaling from reordering command buffers onto multiple CPU cores.Low-overhead validation and processing of API commands.With a basic implementation, Mantle was designed to improve performance in scenarios where the CPU is the limiting factor: The design goals of Mantle are to allow games and applications to utilize the CPUs and GPUs more efficiently, eliminate CPU bottlenecks by reducing API validation overhead and allowing more effective scaling on multiple CPU cores, provide faster draw routines, and allow greater control over the graphics pipeline by eliminating certain aspects of hardware abstraction inherent to both current prevailing graphics APIs OpenGL and Direct3D.

The draw call improvements of Mantle help alleviate cases where the CPU is the bottleneck.

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