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3DMark DirectX 12 API Performance Is 1300% Than DirectX 11

DirectX 12 is truly shaping up to be the API that will release the untapped horsepower of today's graphics cards. 3DMark recently released a DirectX 12 vs DirectX 11 vs Mantle benchmarking software.

The results are stunning, to say the least.

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corroios4076d ago

What would games look a like if the PS4 or the Xbox One were powered by an R9 290X or the Nvidia GTX Titan X???? That is the question?

Uncharted 4 or Halo 5? it would be crazy. We could only dream....

I know that consoles must be cheap to reach to all gamers, but...

thrust4076d ago

If you want that you get gaming PC!

Plus if the consoles did come with them gfx cards they would cost over £1000 to buy!

Which at that price gaming PC all the way heck it's gaming PC all the way now what I am saying!

Kingthrash3604076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

If he wants halo 5 or uncharted get a gaming pc?????????????
Lol I kid I kid... but this has me thinking of getting a gaming pc.....they just cost too much for me at the moment.

TheRedButterfly4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

@1.1 The mistake with this argument is that the only two titles that OP listed aren't available on PC. And that's what he's hypothetically excited about.

He isn't excited about the GPU itself - but instead what affect a top-of-the-line GPU would have on Uncharted 4 or Halo 5.

If he wanted to see what it would do to, say, Metro or The Witcher, we'll see those benchmarks and we'll all bask in its gloriousness. BUT, and it's a big but, it doesn't matter how gorgeous a game is if it isn't the game you want to play. Arma III can be the best looking FPS on the market, but it isn't Halo, so I don't really care what affect a TitanX has on it.

This is why I am (mostly) a console gamer -- because the games I want to play are exclusive to consoles. Sure, I have an enthusiast-grade rig, but I spend most days on my Xbox One or 3DS/Wii U. And when Star Citizen comes out, you best bet I'll be putting my 780ti to work. But until then...

Testfire4076d ago

@kingthrash, buying a gaming PC can be cheap and easy if you do it right. First decide on what components you want and make sure that they'll play together nice. Then just keep an eye out for deals and pick up 1 or 2 components at a time. I shopped through Newegg, Amazon and Fry's Electronics and EBay picking up components only when they were at rock bottom prices or had crazy good rebates. Black Friday is also one of the best times to shop. It seems intimidating, but for budget oriented people this is the best way to go.

GMR_PR4076d ago

"The AMD R9 290X managed to speed up an astounding 1300% in the 3DMark API test. Mantle score is 1200% that of DirectX 11 API score, whereas DirectX 12 API score takes the lead."

This new APIs are a beast. 1300% increase is a really big number.

ElementX4076d ago

It would be pretty pointless because you don't need that much power to display at 60hz 1080p.

VJGenova4076d ago

With other advancements that can be made in a game: draw distance, pov slider, draw calls, active npcs, ubersampling, hairworks, tressfx, etc. you can bet that horsepower is going to be used to make amazing looking dx12 titles that will makes dx11 titles look like ps2 games in comparison. And those games will primarily run at 1080p, 60hz.

ElementX4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

A good graphics card today can run most games on max settings at 1080p and get over 60fps. A Titan X or 290X with DX12 would run games at much higher fps and be overkill on a 60hz tv. Those cards would be good at higher resolutions or with monitors supporting higher refresh rates but not in a console connected to a TV.

Bigpappy4076d ago

You do know that there are plenty TV's at 240Hz right? I know you know this. Just thought I would remind you, because most of what you are saying is correct.

ElementX4076d ago

Those 240hz TVs create frames to make motion look smoother, however they don't input 240hz. I personally don't like the fake motion look and disable it on my TV. Furthermore, the consoles output a 60hz signal

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NuggetsOfGod4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

Who cares about titan? R9 390x is about to kick some green arse till it's red.

Titans bandwidth sucks in comparison.

Gddr is on it's way out this year.

Dx12/Vulkan, HBM waterfall of grace is showering us pc gamers!

A droplet rolls from our brow from the heavens and xbox gamers drink from it and thank the cloud saviour.

PlayStation gamers use interpolation to double it and make extra soup from it.

A sub master race is born and the earth is renamed.

All is well on the little big planet.

3-4-54076d ago

Won't all translate to Extreme mega realistic graphics, as it's Performance based.

So some of it could be allowing a ton more awesome things happening while staying in 1080p + 60+ FPS, or we could get much more realistic lighting...

Good news either way.

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kraenk124076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

PC people rejoice! Finally the better optimized architecture of consoles is coming to PCs. This won't do much for consoles though as their APIs are already pretty much low level optimized but as a multiplatform gamer who just recently bought a 970 I am surely getting excited.

GMR_PR4076d ago

Even if it does a 200% increase on consoles, I would consider it a win. Any gain in performance is welcome.

kraenk124076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

Even 200% is completely unrealistic. 20-30% more is more like it given the consoles' APUs. Like I said, the Direct3D versions on X1 and OpenGL on PS4 feature already a lot of low level optimizations DX11 doesn't have.

Pandamobile4075d ago

200% increase on consoles is a complete pipe dream. You're looking at 20-30% max.

GMR_PR4075d ago

20-30% still great. I'll take it.

Gilgamesh154076d ago

Remain calm, no one mentioned consoles (X1 is what you really meant). Wait, you just did, nice job. Getting really goddamn tired of "It won't do much for X1" comments. Clearly not as much as PC, but Dx12 will help the X1 more than you wish to believe.

kurruptor4076d ago

Wow 1300% from DX12. 300% from the CLOUD.

X1 is going to be 3900% more powerful than PS4.

kraenk124076d ago

I'm sure we will read shit like this soon enough on here ;D

kurruptor4076d ago

It just cost me a bubble :(

Dread4076d ago

Dont ever say that the xbox could possibly be better in any way than the plasytation 4 if u want to keep ur bubbles, even if your kidding.

GMR_PR4076d ago

"It just cost me a bubble :("

That's because your comment is trollish. You troll you lose.

GUTZnPAPERCUTZ4076d ago

Lol people don't understand sarcasm on this site :/

MasterCornholio4076d ago

Shame that it isn't over 9000%!!!!!

;)

phoenixwake4076d ago

You should include this comment with your resume when applying to Microsoft's marketing team.

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DougLord4076d ago

1st this is just draw calls not in game performance, so your 290x or Titan X won't suddenly be 10x better. Secondly it will have the EXACT same effect on Xone regardless of what the Sony army of pretend graphics experts say. This has NOTHING to do with "coding to the metal" this has to do with allowing calls to be initiated by all cores instead of core 1. This, plus the ESRAM optimizations will likely lead to 10%-30% improvement in framerates and/or Rez. Instead of trying to poop on Xone owners you should be asking Sony what they are doing to get the same benefit. I'm not claiming this is secret sauce that the PS4 can't do too. They might just be a year behind.

ziggurcat4076d ago

@douglord

Actually, DX12 is not going to have the same effect at all on xbone:

Brad Wardell:

https://mobile.twitter.com/...
https://mobile.twitter.com/...

And this article has got nothing to do with xbone, eSRAM or even the PS4. It's a PC article. Not everything DX12 Is related to xbone, and that's the major problem - too many people are assuming that any discussion about DX12 is also about xbone.

kurruptor4076d ago

Oh wow that is so funny. X1 fanboys keep quoting him all the time saying he is the only one who has experiencing with DX12 and is the only thing we should believe.

He straight up just said they're wrong.

Bigpappy4076d ago (Edited 4076d ago )

Amazing how people were saying he is not credible, but now they pull one of his lines from twitter to try and discredit a sensible argument.
But he sad this 2 days ago:

http://gamingbolt.com/dx12-...

In short, what DougLord is not made any less relevant by those one liners. The one lines are just saying the gains are not the same as PC. What DougLord is saying matches exactly what Brad Wardell said. PC FPS gains are over 300%. DougLord is only talking 20-30% gains for X1. You Zealous are trying to spin what he said because you know he has 1 bubble. Shameful!

There are video cards out there that use DDR3 and are still seeing very high gains. They don't even use ESRAM. If I were you guys on PS4 or X1 side of the war, I would just wait until There is a bench mark for X1, or some DX12 game are shown. There will be no 1300% gains on Xbox, but there will be excellent gains. Xbox and PC's use similar hardware. Even phones and tablets will gain from DX12.

windblowsagain4076d ago

This is fps,lol.

It's just draw calls.

People on guru3d have already run the test on a host of hardware.

Drawcalls do increase on dx12, higher then mantle. But fps in the test are only 1-2fps different.

People will have to wait for a real game comparison at same settings on d11,mantle,dx12 at same settings etc.

Chanogram4076d ago

There arent any games that are out that are actually built for DX12. Devs and MS has said multiple times that games have to be BUILT to take advantage of the DX12 benefits. This would obviously explain your 1-2 fps increase, as they arent testing real DX12 games. The real tests will come later this year or early next year when some games come out that are designed DX12 on PC (where we can actually benchmark them).

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DirectX 12 Agility SDK Announced and Released Today by Microsoft

At GameStack Live, Microsoft announced and released the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK, which delivers DX12 Ultimate features to a larger base. There will benefits for Xbox, too.

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Orchard1860d ago

Pretty cool. Should help devs adopt more modern rendering techniques on both PC & Xbox rather than have to target old versions to cover the majority of their users.

Sayai jin1859d ago

I saw a report that the new Windows update causes a performance decrease in gaming performance.

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NVIDIA GeForce 451.48 WHQL released, adds full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API

DSOGaming writes: "NVIDIA has just released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 451.48 WHQL driver adds full support for the DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update."

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Windows 10 May 2020 Update available for download, features WDDM 2.7 & DirectX 12 Ultimate support

DSOGaming writes: "Microsoft has released the highly anticipated May 2020 Update for Windows 10. This Update brings support for both WDDM 2.7 and DirectX 12 Ultimate. Moreover, it packs some Xbox Game Bar improvements."

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GaboonViper2187d ago

Here comes another feature update that resets my settings.

Profchaos2187d ago

If it doesn't delete your files ala 1809 consider it a minor victory

1nsomniac2187d ago

I’ve noticed they do this as well.

I wonder how they legally get away with stealthily resetting all the privacy settings to allow tracking and monitoring without notifying you. It was only by chance I noticed it last time.

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Unspoken2187d ago

Any software you use does this unfortunately.

1nsomniac2186d ago (Edited 2186d ago )

I think you’re misunderstanding what happens. All your windows settings remain untouched, it doesn’t change any of your settings accept Those related to your privacy. So all those privacy settings you agreed not to share during the installation and other privacy terms that you agreed not to share, within the privacy options page, even your offline linked windows accounts. It secretly enables all of those options without notifying you that it’s changed your selected options that both parties had agreed to. I don’t think they’ll be allowed to continue to do that under GDPR laws so we’ll see if it happens again. However unfortunately for me being in the UK, we won’t have GDPR laws for much longer after we leave the EU.

Hakuoro2186d ago

Gahl1k

The term "willingly" is questionable at best...

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AuraAbjure2187d ago (Edited 2187d ago )

Crash restart lockup repeat. Windows. Wonder what will happen to people who take health advice from its creator.

Edgelordsupreme2187d ago

PEBCAC

I don't have any problems, so the issue is probably someone who thinks Bill Gates has anything to do with the development of Windows in its current form.

Tacoboto2187d ago

"My PC sucks" = "Bill Gates' billions and billions of investment in vaccines and cures will kill you"?

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BigTrain2187d ago

Crash, the END. That's what'll happen.

Asuka2187d ago (Edited 2187d ago )

As a note: WDDM 2.7 requires you to have updated drivers (which currently no official WQHL driver w/ support is available for Nvidia yet. Only development branch 450.xx). Also you need a 7th gen or newer Intel CPU w/ igpu, or a 10 series or newer Nvidia GPU, or latest AMD offerings.

WGAF2187d ago

Last time I update, the ethernet driver wasnt available so no matter what (even factory reset) I can't go online. The only way to update is to go online lol. Well I always wanted an offline laptop, so I guess got what I wish for :/

Fishy Fingers2187d ago

Use wifi (or tether to the device your posting from now) and download the driver.