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

[Gregster]

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

 

[Gregster]

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.

 

[Gregster]

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.

 

[Gregster]

A lot will depend on what resources of man power each has to spare to spend time with DX12.

 

[Gregster]

A puff piece from Nvidia.com no less...

and of course the usual begging off "oh, I just thought people would find it interesting" "oh, I just copy and pasted" "oh, I just happened to be reading it"

PR bah bah bah bah.. How anyone at this moment trust anything nvidia says is beyond me. 3.5 worth of bull..

Sure this blog isn't going to big up nvidia is it O Wait.

 

[Gregster]

Greg, I have an honest question: are you employed by Nvidia or have some financial / emotional investment in the company other than simply owning some of their products?

I ask because every word I read from you about Nvidia is virtually PR guff, it's like a whole nother' level above fanboyism.

No, I am not employed by nVidia and yes, I own nVidia as well as AMD and I am really looking forward to seeing DX12 games on my system. I imagine there is a few others who are struggling with the DX11 bottleneck, so a new API is a much welcomed thing for me and probably those like me.

Don't let my threads worry you so and if you don't like them, just ignore is my advice

 

[Gregster]

This forum lately..

Spoiler

Takes forever to load?

 

[Gregster]

http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Windows-Update-Installs-GeForce-34965-WDDM-20

Not sure if that has been posted but might be useful to those that run W10

Outside sources have confirmed to PC Perspective that this driver contains DirectX 12 as well as WDDM 2.0. They also claim that Intel and AMD have DirectX 12 drivers available through Windows Update as well.

 

[Gregster]

Fine here, must be your proprietary screen.

/runs