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4890 scores up to 15 percent better with DX10.1

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Fudzilla said:
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

XFX is bundling Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X game with its HD 4890 cards, and this game is one of the big titles that feature support for DirectX 10.1.

Sanjin was kind enough to include this game in many benchmarks he run and he found out that XFX 4890 with DirectX 10.1 enabled scores a lot of frames than without it.

At 2560x1600, without DirectX 10.1 the card scores 45 FPS. With DirectX 10.1 the same card at the same resolution scores 51FPS.

At 1920x1200 without AA and without DirectX 10.1 it scores 62FPS while with DirectX 10.1 enabled the same game scores 70 FPS. The same resolution but with AA and without DirectX 10.1 XFX scores 48 FPS while with DirectX 10.1 enabled it scores whopping 57 FPS. We are talking about 10 to 15 percent difference which is a lot.

With Nvidia cards, none of which have support for DirectX 10.1 there is no option to turn this feature on in the game. It took ATI long enough but at least with this title they made a huge difference with its ability to support DirectX 10.1.
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all we need now is more DirectX10.1 games!!!
 
This is really old news. We've known that ati cards perform a lot better in dx 10.1 for a long time. Just developers don't release titles in DX 10.1 because nvidia cry at them.

Remember the assassin's creed controversy?
 
Realistically, the target audience for people with DX10.1 compliant cards is very small. It is simply not worth a developers time and effort to implement it without substantial sponsorship from GPU manufactures or Micro$oft. By the time DX10.1 is mainstream, current gen cards may be too slow to run the newest games anyway.
 
but we are talking about two separate games/demos where the developer has been bothered to spend the extra time and money coding for the optimisations and then being "persuaded" to drop them. Don't know whether to feel sorry for or mad at ATi for not having the bottle/money to stand their corner.
 
why? what's the problem with the thread. OP says that DX10.1 makes Ati cards go faster, everyone agrees and says that it would be nice if it were better supported. A couple of examples are given but seems odd that support was dropped??:confused:
Not aware of any forum rules being broken here?? If you're referring to fanboy wars then I'm sure that this forum is above all that......
 
zytok said:
Not aware of any forum rules being broken here?? If you're referring to fanboy wars then I'm sure that this forum is above all that......
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Haha. Yeah, right.

This thread is very likely to descend into

"omg nvidia being the big green monster and stopping ati competing with DX 10.1)

"yeah well physx is really good, but you ati noobs are stopping that by not supporting it on your gpus"

joy.
 
Ben M said:
This is really old news. We've known that ati cards perform a lot better in dx 10.1 for a long time. Just developers don't release titles in DX 10.1 because nvidia cry at them.

Remember the assassin's creed controversy?
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More to the point most developers have no need at this point for the features of DX10.1 and it usuallys ends up with them spending more time and money implementing features that do nothing for the game in most situations...

Granted in the few games where either the game can actually take advantage of DX10.1 and/or ATI have pushed (or supported) the developer to add these features it results in a performance increase (or to my mind actually gets the performance upto normal) on ATI hardware.
 
I really don't understand why nvidia can't just support 10.1 instead of getting on the back of any developer that implements it pretty pathetic really.
 
Perhaps NVidia are try to prolong DX9 for the benefit of 99% of gamers who do not own DX10.1 capable cards and OS's. Isn't it nice to have a manufacturer who genuinely cares for their existing customers, rather than chasing new ways to make their purchases obsolete. ATI are evil:D.
 
well u will not see much dx 10.1 games but when there will be dx11 games it dx10.1 cards in those game will outperform dx10 nvidia cards , but by then we probably will have new cards anyway so does not really matter
 
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