WOW. AMD GPU's To Gain 400% Performance Increase With DirectX12

[CDHoward]

Article: http://au.ibtimes.com/directx-12-improves-amd-gpu-performance-400-windows-10-1420167

 

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(Pic courtesy of @catbutts).

[QueenDemetria]

AMD's message to Nvidia:

[terrytek]

AMD can go fuck themselves, unless NVidia has something better.

[X1XNobleX1X]

Having said that, the top-end NVIDIA card GTX 980 still managed to outperform AMD's R9 290X GPU purely in terms of framerate performance.

The Nvidia fanboy coming out..

 

 

As well as this:

 

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Meaning, don't just post a link. 

@CDHoward

[SeanBond]

400% increase.....on an fx-4300 cpu....

[SnypeUXD]

This article is pretty bull, its based on a single demonstration, with only two GPUs. This just means that DX11 was badly optimized in this situation the the 290x. We know that the performance gap between the 980 and 290x is not that extreme.

 

This is just another click bait title article with little substance to back up its claim.

[Suika]

The Nvidia fanboy coming out..

Fanboy? That's fact. The GTX 980 is and always will be more powerful than the 290X, every benchmark has shown it.

[QueenDemetria]

This article is pretty bull, its based on a single demonstration, with only two GPUs. This just means that DX11 was badly optimized in this situation the the 290x. We know that the performance gap between the 980 and 290x is not that extreme.

 

This is just another click bait title article with little substance to back up its claim.

The 980 still outperforms the 290x in their test, just the 290x saw more of an improvement from DX12.

[1Scotty1]

400%? Still not enough to be on the same level as Nvidia

[X1XNobleX1X]

Fanboy? That's fact. The GTX 980 is and always will be more powerful than the 290X, every benchmark has shown it.

I said that, since this is a forum post about AMD GPU's. 

[cesrai]

Nice like b8 m8 I r8 8/8 appri8 please don't h8.

[Albatross]

If only their CPUs could see some kind of performance increase.

[Grrizz]

LOL only because the GPU was running so s*** and unoptimised before (to show off how good mantle is ;P), the 260X and 290X are performing within margin of error on DX11 Even a GTX680 is showing 3x the performance on DX11 vs the 290X in the benchmarks they are referring too lol and on DX12 the GTX980 is performing ~57% faster than the 290X (with its 400% boost) in those benches...

Click bait to a tee...

[Laederem]

Nice like b8 m8 I r8 8/8 appri8 please don't h8.

dank memes bro

[SuperPug]

It gained 400% in a Syntetic Benchmark... So i guess the real world performance gain is gonna be about 20% then?

[Bravosgrad]

just like how mantle doubles fps

/s

[QueenDemetria]

just like how mantle doubles fps

/s

Nobody really has taken advantage of Mantle. With time it should get better, just like PhysX. I remember the joke about PhysX was that "It looks great, for all two games that support it".

[cesrai]

dank memes bro

I'm saying the truth m8 don't h8 aprrci8.

[KamiKatze]

Wasn't this covered on the last WAN-show? I thought Star Swarm was a very bad example to make representative.

 

I guess we can at least look forward to some degree of performance improvement, even if it's just 10-20%. Free is free.

[SkilledRebuilds]

400% in ONE instance (Starswarm on DX11 cripples ALL GPU's) does not equal 400% across the board for us all.

Keep that in mind.

Not saying I don't welcome more performance, but it's a little misleading to think it's standard fare for all things.

[Zeruel]

If MS forces games to use DX12 I could see %50 happening but as we know...

 

 

 

Game DEVs are lazy...

[Snickerzz]

ibtimes is worse than wccf

[CommandMan7]

If you follow the link in the part of the article that claims 400% gains, it will take you to Anandtech's DirectX12 Performance Preview Article. In that article, the 400% gains actually boost the AMD cards to Mantle frame rates. Originally, the 290X was at a 321.7% disadvantage over the GTX 980, so the actual gains when compared to the 980 DirectX 11 framerates is 78.3%. And that's comparing the 290X DirectX 12 to the 980 DirectX 11. Comparing to the 980's DirectX 12 framerates, the 290X is still at a 35.8% disadvantage.

 

The reason why there are 400% gains is that when you are at the bottom of the benchmarks, you have nowhere to go but up. 

[Ostwind]

400% lol sure it will, and I'm going to start shitting platinum.

[catbutts]

If you follow the link in the part of the article that claims 400% gains, it will take you to Anandtech's DirectX12 Performance Preview Article. In that article, the 400% gains actually boost the AMD cards to Mantle frame rates. Originally, the 290X was at a 321.7% disadvantage over the GTX 980, so the actual gains when compared to the 980 DirectX 11 framerates is 78.3%. And that's comparing the 290X DirectX 12 to the 980 DirectX 11. Comparing to the 980's DirectX 12 framerates, the 290X is still at a 35.8% disadvantage.

 

The reason why there are 400% gains is that when you are at the bottom of the benchmarks, you have nowhere to go but up. 

Very useful clarification for the very amazing click bait title

 

Just going to add the link and chart here for reference:

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