Cool. The game runs better on an OS used by a small minority of gamers. Mantle will bring improvements for another, albeit larger minority. Dice seems to be more interested in promoting software and hardware than selling games.
Yes. Bf3 and bf4 moves hardware like nothing else in this world. And nv will lose the hardware game. But the profit from that single game and engine is miles ahead of what nv and amd can do right now. Bf is selling like crazy. Content is the future king and the hardware players will have to bow to it.