The Review Is In: DirectX 12 is Way to Game, and GeForce Leads Pack

Gregster · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:50

Take cutting-edge graphics. Put them on a software platform shared by a billion people. Now, make it free.

That’s the promise of DirectX 12. It’s the next-generation, cross-platform, graphics application-programming interface (API) Microsoft has built into its new version of Windows, Windows 10. And it’s available as a free upgrade.

After four years in development, and announced last year amid promises of great things, DX12 is getting its first outside validation: DX12 is delivering and more.

Microsoft gave respected industry publication Anandtech an exclusive preview of DirectX 12. In testing with the rigorous CPU-overhead benchmark, Star Swarm, Anandtech found DX12 shows significant performance gains on both 2- and 4-core CPUs.

“With single-threaded performance struggling to increase while GPUs continue to improve by leaps and bounds with each generation, something must be done to allow games to better spread out their rendering & submission workloads over multiple cores,” Anantech’s Ryan Smith wrote. “The solution to that problem is to eliminate the abstraction and let the developers do it themselves through APIs like DirectX 12.”

Ready to rock: Our gear is ready for DirectX 12 and Windows 10.
Ready to rock: Our gear is ready for DirectX 12 and Windows 10.
On the graphics front, GeForce is also more than ready. We’ve been investing for years to optimize our GPUs and drivers for DX12. And the great performance on Star Swarm shows the result. Across the board, our GeForce GPUs and drivers pair to deliver class-leading performance for both DX11 and DX12.

“As it stands, with the CPU bottleneck swapped out for a GPU bottleneck, Star Swarm starts to favor NVIDIA GPUs right now,” Smith wrote. “Even accounting for performance differences, NVIDIA ends up coming out well ahead here.”

This will be a great year for game developers and gamers alike. For developers, it means a standard interface that can tap into the vast majority of PCs. For gamers, expect over a hundred titles developed for DX12, delivering a new visual richness.

- See more at: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/02/16/directx-12-geforce/#sthash.csCul0Pn.dpuf

My nVidia GPUs are ready, as is my G-Sync monitor. Bring it on

Neil79 · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:51

Thankfully I don't need G-Sync

Although my monitor is G-Sync capable

VincentHanna · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:52

Is that like when TV's were 'HD Ready' but not actually Full HD?

eyetrip · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:53

Soooo, an article discussing the results of a previous (and now quite old article), and this needed a new thread why?

Is there some new information in there I missed?

LoadsaMoney · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:55

AMD destroyed!

JediFragger · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:55

eyetrip - It's to remind us AMD owners that we're under the boot

Stanners · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:56

eyetrip said:
Soooo, an article discussing the results of a previous (and now quite old article), and this needed a new thread why?

Is there some new information in there I missed?

Does it offend your 290's

I do not see an issue with the thread. But as to maybe not upset the more touchy on the forums maybe it is time to start a DX12 related thread for all information both AMD and Nvidia.

RanxZy · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:58

Just hurry up and release GM200 NVIDIA

JediFragger · 23 Feb 2015 at 13:58

Competition is good, hopefully this will give AMD the kick up the behind it needs!! With the recent cutbacks and driver delays, I just get the impression that the driver 'team' consists of 3 blokes and a dog under a stair cupboard!!

The dog is for when they get bored and then they get the peanut butter out

Gregster · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:05

eyetrip said:
Soooo, an article discussing the results of a previous (and now quite old article), and this needed a new thread why?

Is there some new information in there I missed?

Sorry, my intention wasn't to offend but more give some good news for nVidia users. The thread title is quite clear in this is aimed at nVidia users and is from an nVidia blog.

eyetrip · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:07

Stanners said:
Does it offend your 290's

I do not see an issue with the thread. But as to maybe not upset the more touchy on the forums maybe it is time to start a DX12 related thread for all information both AMD and Nvidia.

Couldn't care less about anything Nvidia vs AMD. I don't stick to one brand.

It just doesn't seem to me to be adding anything over the previous article on Anand, which has it's own long thread somewhere.

Ayahuasca · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:07

Could be the reason for AMD bringing in a CPU dev for their GPU drivers.

eyetrip · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:08

Gregster said:
Sorry, my intention wasn't to offend but more give some good news for nVidia users. The thread title is quite clear in this is aimed at nVidia users and is from an nVidia blog.

I'm not offended, I promise

VincentHanna · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:08

Gregster said:
The thread title is quite clear in this is aimed at nVidia users and is from an nVidia blog.

The thread title makes it sound like someone (independent) has reviewed DX12 performance and crowned Nvidia "Geforce" the winner

~>Dg<~ · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:10

Gregster · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:10

VincentHanna said:
The thread title makes it sound like someone (independent) has reviewed DX12 performance and crowned Nvidia "Geforce" the winner

Copy and paste brother....That's all I did and if I am honest, I am proper looking forward to seeing DX12 on my system, as I do suffer the DX11 bottleneck

DX12 will be great for both nVidia and AMD users so long as the game devs can be bothered to look after us PC gamers.

Tonester0011 · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:11

When dx12 gets properly tested **** I'd laugh if AMD come out on top. Bug + Co would never let it go, 15 threads later and cream everywhere

We can dream, eh.

SS-89 · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:13

VincentHanna said:
The thread title makes it sound like someone (independent) has reviewed DX12 performance and crowned Nvidia "Geforce" the winner

Have to agree. Anyway this is meaningless to me, DX12 games are probably not here for another year by which time Nvidia and AMD will likely have new cards out.

VincentHanna · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:15

I would imagine it shouldn't favour one or the other, so long as the GPU's both support it properly.

By the time a game comes out properly supporting DX12 everyone (here) will have moved on to future GPU's which have proper DX12 support from the ground up.

SiDeards73 · 23 Feb 2015 at 14:35

This is all smoke and mirrors and tbh doesnt tell the full true story, as usual Nividia are glossing over the actual facts by crowing about their current top end card basically having the highest fps of the cards tested.

When in actual reality if you check the Percentage Increase that DX gave to the 290, you will see the actual increase was higher on the AMD card

Dont believe me? check Anandtechs review

www.anandtech.com/show/8962/the-directx-12-performance-preview-amd-nvidia-star-swarm/3

Check the figures, AMD cards all gain a higher Percentage increase in performance compared to the Nvidia cards, while Nvidia cards might currently hit higher fps marks, the actual performance increase is higher on AMD GPU's

Now if the new AMD gpus blow away the Nvidia stuff, and the percentage increases are consistant, well.........