DX 12 early benchmarks

[DanceswithUnix]

Don't remember seeing this on here, Anandtech ran some early DX12 benchmarks and have now run some more using AMD APUs.

Looks like Microsoft are already within a hair of Mantle performance (I thought it would take longer than that):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8962/t...a-star-swarm/6

and makes APUs more usable for gaming

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8968/s...pu-performance

In that first one, the Nvidia drivers aren't getting the sort of percentage boost from DX12 that AMD are seeing which makes me once again think that Nvidia have some tricks in their driver to wring better performance out of DX11 (their scaling against lower end CPUs always seemed a bit better than AMD could manage).

I think this is going to be very interesting to watch as more results come in and the drivers mature...

[KeyboardDemon]

I'm trying hard not to get drawn into the hype over this. We are at the point where there are more rumours and unsabstantiated conjecture at the moment and I want to read hard, reliable facts and a good balanced analysis of the data.

[WellofSouls]

Looking good, but I'll be sceptical until I see mainstream games take advantage of DX12.

[Greenbandit]

I hear that DX12 might not be released for Windows 7.

I'll survive.

[shaithis]

Looking good, but I'll be sceptical until I see mainstream games take advantage of DX12.

I think the uptake is going to be huge. It's going to get pushed hard for XB1 and PC versions will likely be based off of the XB1 versions...

[Millennium]

I guess the question is how far back the dx12 support will go in the NVidia and AMD product lines.

This is great news though on the performance part, thanks DanceswithuNix .

[shaithis]

I guess the question is how far back the dx12 support will go in the NVidia and AMD product lines.

AMD HD7000 Series and nVidia Fermi are the earliest to be supported I believe.

[scaryjim]

I hear that DX12 might not be released for Windows 7.

Oh noes! if only MS would offer a free upgrade to Windows 10 for all Windows 7 and 8 users!

Oh, wait...

AMD have confirmed that DX12 will run on all GCN cards, I think, so 7-series is a reasonable call (although watch out for some of the really low end stuff that's rebadges of the 5000-series, and of course the IGPs are VLIW before Kaveri, so if you're on a Llano/Trinity/Richland APU you won't get DX12 either...). Fermi doesn't sound unreasonable for NVidia, but I have no evidence to support that supposition...

[shaithis]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/01...0-nvidia-dx12/