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Battlefield 4 Running DirectX 11.1 Could Give Radeon HD 7000 an Edge

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Battlefield 4 Running DirectX 11.1 Could Give Radeon HD 7000 an Edge

EA-DICE' upcoming online shooter Battlefield 4 will take advantage of DirectX 11.1 API, on PCs running Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Running the game with DirectX 11.1 will have a positive performance impact compared to running it on DirectX 11.0, or on older operating systems like Windows 7 (which doesn't support DirectX 11.1). In the words of the technical director behind Frostbite, the underlying engine for Battlefield 4, "We use DX11.1, there are some optimizations in it (constant buffer offsets, dynamic buffers as SRVs) that we got in to the the API that improves CPU performance in our rendering when one runs with DX11.1." This could give Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs an edge over their GeForce competitors. GPUs based on NVIDIA's "Kepler" micro-architecturedon't fully support*DirectX 11.1. Incidentally, Battlefield 4 was just bagged and tagged by AMD for its future "Never Settle" bundle. Join the dots.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/187812/b...x-11-1-could-give-radeon-hd-7000-an-edge.html


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AMD and DICE have already announced that the game is primarily optimised for AMD hardware - all Frostbite engine games will be from now on.
 
The difference here is that it won't be optimised for AMD hardware at the expensive of anyone not using AMD hardware, ie, it won't be gimped for nVidia customers.
 
teppic said:
AMD and DICE have already announced that the game is primarily optimised for AMD hardware - all Frostbite engine games will be from now on.
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Nothing but marketing rhetoric. BF3 was meant to be optimised for NVidia hardware, yet both "sides" cards ran the game very well.
 
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Gerard said:
Nothing but marketing rhetoric. BF3 was meant to be optimised for NVidia hardware, yet both "sides" cards ran the game very well.
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Wrong as nvidia had a major advantage on the gtx580 v 6970 and the gtx680 also had a decent advantage over the 7970 until september last year. Nvidia had something along the lines of driver command lines helping there cards in bf3. This may not be the proper term but I am pretty sure its close and gave them an advantage.
 
TheLegendOfMart said:
That's what I thought, bought Start8 (though there are free alternatives available) and I get along fine without having to see the Start Screen or anything metro.

I use it as I used to use Windows 7.
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The problem is...for people who already own Windows 7, there's little reason for them to go Windows 8- unless it is for free. Even then people would have to consider...
 
As a windows 8 and AMD user this is music to my ears. I just hope what they say is actually true. I also hope they build a consistent in game benchmark this time around so we get benchmark consistent results, rather than currently based on what map a review site uses.
 
There's a bit of adjustment with Win8, but its a solid OS once you get used to it. And it is slightly faster than Windows 7. Windows 8.1 will be a free update for Windows 8 users and reintroduces the start menu, plus there are already several mods that do the same thing for 8. So I don't really see the issue tbh.

As for BF4, well I'm already committed with a GTX 780. It may not be as fast as the next round of AMD cards, but I can't exactly see it struggling either. I'm pretty sure any decent card from both sides will be fine, even if the AMD guys do get bragging rights this time around.
 
Wucked said:
There's a bit of adjustment with Win8, but its a solid OS once you get used to it. And it is slightly faster than Windows 7. Windows 8.1 will be a free update for Windows 8 users and reintroduces the start menu, plus there are already several mods that do the same thing for 8. So I don't really see the issue tbh.

As for BF4, well I'm already committed with a GTX 780. It may not be as fast as the next round of AMD cards, but I can't exactly see it struggling either. I'm pretty sure any decent card from both sides will be fine, even if the AMD guys do get bragging rights this time around.
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+1.

A 780 with its 3gb of vram will be perfect for BF4. I have a sneaky feeling our 2gb friends won't be running x4 AA smoothly at 1080p due to a lack of vram.
 
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