Disclaimer: I'm not a hardcore system builder; in fact I only have a Windows PC to play a handful of games. Star Citizen the most important at the moment :)

I've been reading about Mantle and it seems to get compared to G-sync a lot, but to me, they serve very different purposes, so I am not sure why this is.

Anyway, with AMD's Freesync now peeking its head up as a competitive technology to Nvidia's G-sync, it seems to make an AMD GPU the no-brainer choice for Star Citizen. At least to me.

I know there are Nvidia loyalists and in fact their chipsets do always seem to be on the cutting edge of performance... but with Mantle (which bypasses the Windows DirectX mess if I understand it) it gives a significant boost to performance by having an API that addresses hardware directly.

What is the general hive mind on this? No religious wars, just facts if we can :)