alexandros
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The next couple of years are going to be fantastic for PC gaming.
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Anandtech: The DirectX 12 Performance Preview
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LordOfChaos
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Do not feed Mr Horse, you know what they say about that.
This is a stupid question but will the implementation of DirectX 12 in Windows 10 help systems with older, DirectX 11 cards, like my HD 7950? I have a FX-6300 chip (admittedly, my system is more budget-focused) and I'm just curious if this will help games utilize what I have better.
Mantle has better multi-platform support?
Throw in vr sli as well. Pc gaming is undergoing it's biggest change in a decade.
Your card will support dx12.
Iced_Eagle
Member
Yes. DX12 will support all existing GCN cards by AMD.
Of course, it will require games which use DX12, but you will be able to get these improvements on your existing hardware.
THIS.
The biggest potential, IMHO is in the tons of CPU cycles this frees up on PC!
We'll be able to have games that aren't possible on consoles, simply because their CPU's are so low end. Games with more complex AI, games with lots of actors, games with complex calculations in terms of physics, spatial coordinates, etc. I think this + newer GPU's huge potential with async compute means PC games in 3 years will be way ahead of consoles in some very tangible ways.
Imagine the next total war featuring battle not with just a few thousand men, which is alreayd, admittedly prety impressive, but with tens of thousands of men, and thousands of civilians in city battles fleeing and grabbing sticks to fight along side the defenders... Oh man, all we need is for CA to give the old engine a heave ho and adpat DX12 Open GL next asap!
In terms of pure GPU stuff, aside from async compute on what are much more capable GPu's on PC - having lower access o the GPU may very well play an important part in VR as well.
This isn't just about low-end CPUs getting a new lease on life, DX12 has major implications for faster CPUs as well. I have an i5-3570k at stock speeds, for example, and I regularly see my BF4 performance drop below 60hz because of CPU bottlenecks. DX12 should pretty much eliminate this (or at least it will for future Frostbite games).
lukeskymac
Member
Now give me an open ePCIe standard and a Blade-like notebook with said port, Iris Pro and no dedicated GPU, please =(
This is a travesty.
Shared with the cpu.
LordOfChaos
Member
GLNext should too, we'll see if that's up to snuff with Mantle and DX12 soon enough.
I had to grab a kitten and sacrifice it to Gaben our lord and saviour just to cleanse my OC aura after reading that!
When I bought it, I didn't need it to be any faster. Now that it's hitting it's limits, I can't afford to splurge on a better cooler. Life is funny sometimes.
Iris pro is pretty sick. I have one of those gigabyte steam machines from dev days and it uses iris pro. It's what I do my development on.
LegalEagleMike
Member
surprised it took this long before our first xbox related post!
I have a 4970k. I run it at stock. I also have an evga gtx 980 sc... I also run at stock speed.
Let your anger flow...
Is this a joke post?
Microsoft got AMD's input, not sources. OpenGL Next however got full source access and is free to take any and everything from Mantle. I fully expect OpenGL Next to officially replace Mantle.
Comparing the relative value before and after the improvements are way bigger for the AMD cards though.
Vr sli is an sli model specifically for virtual reality headsets. It uses one gpu per eye. You wouldn't see benefit on a normal monitor.
LordOfChaos
Member
Me too, MBP 15". It's really not a bad GPU at all, I've thrown most modern games at it and it's usually above 30FPS at 1440x900 mid-low. Only thing that didn't work well was Ryse, and one game that was frustratingly borderline was Far Cry 4, giant random dips in performance.
lukeskymac
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My 4670K is stock too, but only because I haven't bothered to buy a better CPU cooler yet. My 780's OCed, though =P
Yeah that's what I thought. I haven't tried any of the VR headsets yet so I'm not too terribly excited for that.
Dictator93
Member
Star Citizen needs a DX12 path asap. It is the game basically built for heavy CPU scaling.
They confirmed Mantle long time ago, but game will supposedly support everything.
michaelius
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Yes but that tells us more how shitty AMD dx11 drivers are
It's incredibly exciting if you're into vr development. Vr takes so much resources, it'll be awesome to get vr games approaching modern image quality.
DagnastyEp
Member
Extremely interesting.
Same here. We probably won't really know until near the end of this year.
It's 5GB available and yes there are 6GB PC GPUs.
And how much driver "shittiness" DX11 allowes compared to DX12.
When you are CPU bound.
qa_engineer
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thelastword
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Seems like AMD got the biggest boost. I'm pretty sure Mantle can see further gains though, it's about head to head with DX12 results at the moment.
