Fable Legends: AMD and Nvidia go head-to-head in latest DirectX 12 benchmark

LoadsaMoney · 25 Sep 2015 at 12:54

Articles been updated.

Update (9/24/2015): After results from other sites began to go live, it became apparent that our performance figures for Fury X and the 980 Ti were oddly low. We’ve inserted a section above (and new benchmarks) to explain what happened and examine the new data. Relative performance between lower-end AMD and Nvidia cards is also now addressed.

KillBoY_UK · 25 Sep 2015 at 13:27

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9659/fable-legends-directx-12-benchmark-analysis

Anandtech have there own article now as well

shankly1985 · 25 Sep 2015 at 13:55

KillBoY_UK said:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9659/fable-legends-directx-12-benchmark-analysis

Anandtech have there own article now as well

290x still going strong here @1080p 67fps Decent that.

andybird123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:03

shankly1985 said:
290x still going strong here @1080p 67fps Decent that.

yep, fair... how does the 290X overclock compared to the 970?

wonder when this bench will be getting multicard support as well

shankly1985 · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:06

andybird123 said:
yep, fair... how does the 290X overclock compared to the 970?

wonder when this bench will be getting multicard support as well

Guess we find out when we all get are hands on the Benchmark.

tommybhoy · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:09

Going off the data out there, don't think an oc'ed 970 will be enough to catch an oc'ed 290X in this title.

KillBoY_UK · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:12

tommybhoy said:
Going off the data out there, don't think an oc'ed 970 will be enough to catch an oc'ed 290X in this title.

Since when a OCed 970 catched a OCed 290x in anything lol

tommybhoy · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:28

Can't see any oc'ed 970 closing that kind of gap at all.

KillBoY_UK said:
Since when a OCed 970 catched a OCed 290x in anything lol

I know that, but you know what this place is like

Rroff · 25 Sep 2015 at 14:48

shankly1985 said:
Guess we find out when we all get are hands on the Benchmark.

Yeah definitely need some user benchmarks - looks like the AMD provided results have been um "massaged" if you compare to a broad spectrum of results from other sites (even taking into account some sites using factory OC parts).

~>Dg<~ · 25 Sep 2015 at 15:12

and so it begins.....

fs123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 15:43

Looks like Unreal Engine 4 doesn't support Async Compute for PC but does for Xbox One. Sadly we won't see Async support anytime since UE4 is Nvidia partnered. AMD has done well for the DX12 drivers judging by the 300 series performance.

Rroff · 25 Sep 2015 at 15:46

fs123 said:
Looks like Unreal Engine 4 doesn't support Async Compute for PC but does for Xbox One. Sadly we won't see Async support anytime since UE4 is Nvidia partnered. AMD has done well for the DX12 drivers judging by the 300 series performance.

Yeah the 390X does surprisingly well - you need a fairly decently OC'd 980ti to pull away from it a meaningful amount.

andybird123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 15:57

fs123 said:
Looks like Unreal Engine 4 doesn't support Async Compute for PC but does for Xbox One. Sadly we won't see Async support anytime since UE4 is Nvidia partnered. AMD has done well for the DX12 drivers judging by the 300 series performance.

AMD seem to disagree with you.

AMDMatt said:
I see nothing wrong with this post, our performance is good across the board. This game is using Async Shaders too, you can expect that a lot in future DX12 titles due to the consoles being able to use the feature.

mmj_uk · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:01

andybird123 said:
AMD seem to disagree with you.

Every game from now on will have asynchronous shaders according to AMD because it's all they have to shout about, that's why they've launched a media campaign making such a mountain out of molehill. It's probably the only thing they could find about their cards that was marketable, even though the games they've shouted about so far are yet to show any tangible benefit.

Gregster · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:06

fs123 said:
Looks like Unreal Engine 4 doesn't support Async Compute for PC but does for Xbox One. Sadly we won't see Async support anytime since UE4 is Nvidia partnered. AMD has done well for the DX12 drivers judging by the 300 series performance.

Sadly wrong there on all of it and ACE is indeed a feature of the Unreal Engine.

fs123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:07

Gregster said:
Sadly wrong there on all of it and ACE is indeed a feature of the Unreal Engine.

any references?

Orangey · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:09

fs123 said:
Looks like Unreal Engine 4 doesn't support Async Compute for PC but does for Xbox One. Sadly we won't see Async support anytime since UE4 is Nvidia partnered.

Looks like?

andybird123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:14

fs123 said:
any references?

yes - AMD rep requoted 3 posts above yours

Gregster · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:18

fs123 said:
any references?

Firstly you have AMDMatt who said it and then you confirmed it.

PCPer if you don't want to believe Matt

Fable Legends is a gorgeous looking game based on the benchmark we have here in-house thanks in some part the modifications that the Lionhead Studios team has made to the UE4 DX12 implementation. The game takes advantage of Asynchronous Compute Shaders, manual resource barrier tracking and explicit memory management to help achieve maximum performance across a wide range of CPU and GPU hardware.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...-Benchmark-DX12-Performance-Testing-Continues

You're welcome

And you did even say that the UE4 has Async compute on the Xbox One, which in turn will also be the same for the PC, albeit with slight variations

fs123 · 25 Sep 2015 at 16:35

Orangey said:
Looks like?

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Rendering/ShaderDevelopment/AsyncCompute/index.html

For games like Fable, if the feature is used, I doubt it's used extensively especially if it has fallback to DX11 feature for older gpu's