DirectX 12 Will Unlock The Performance Of Your CPU

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We know by now that Microsoft’s DirectX 12 API set to be released as part of Windows 10 will bring significant performance improvements in games, which is mainly thanks to the low-level API granting game developers more control over the graphics cards in PCs, but it seems DirectX 12 has more to it than that.

 

According to AMD, DirectX 12 will finally unlock the true potential of multi-core CPUs. The semiconductor giant cited Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock who pointed out that with DirectX 11 and older, no matter how many processing cores your CPU has, only one of them can talk to the GPU at a time.

 

 

“I’ve had a lot of meetings with Microsoft, AMD, and a little bit of NVIDIA and Intel – they really need to hit home the fact that DirectX 12, Vulkan, and Mantle, allow all of the cores of your CPU to talk to the video card simultaneously. But everyone’s really iffy about that, because that means acknowledging that for the past several years, only one of your cores was talking to the GPU, and no one wants to go ‘You know by the way, you know that multi-core CPU? It was useless for your games.’” – Brad Wardell

 

 

Presentation slides from AMD have been released that compare the differences in multi-core CPU utilization with DirectX 11 and DirectX 12, and the results are clear. The company states that because of better CPU and GPU management, DirectX 12 will “allow for new game designs previously considered impossible due to technical limitations of past DirectX APIs”.

 

 

It's about time Microsoft picked up the ball.

[Pugs501]

[Arty]

, i thought this was announced before hmm

[Aniallation]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basically dissing their own CPUs as they are now, to promote DX12

[Interfectorem]

Basically dissing their own CPUs as they are now, to promote DX12

HAHAH! I agree. Nonetheless, I'm quite excited!

[Lord Baal]

I guess if your CPU sucks maybe... I'm yet to see my cpu above 50% load on any core in any game so I honestly don't expect much of a CPU related performance gain. 

[Opcode]

Basically dissing their own CPUs as they are now, to promote DX12

Actually sticking Microsoft pretty bad because DirectX has been single threaded through the entire stack for way too long.

[H4X3R]

Finally i can justify the purchase of my 5820K over an i5 4460

[qwertywarrior]

only reason i bought a 2600k was because  it had 8 threads

i KNEW this was gonna happen sooner or later

same reason i bought a QX6700 back in the day

[AlexGoesHigh]

i swear microsoft said on gdc 14 that multi thread optimization was the biggest improvement in dx12, i guess this confirms it

[Mr crabcake]

So there is still hope for DayZ SA and Arma 3...

[azurezeed]

this is what they should've done a long time ago

[s3ns3]

amd you have to release cpus with new arhitecture to convince ppl to buy your stuff. not this

[Dabombinable]

So...my QX 6850 and Xeon X5450 won't be as heavily loaded in DX 12 games, damn they might actually get a proper chance to kick the shit out of the FX range, considering the X5450 already has a significantly higher IPC.

[tsk]

If mantle has taught us anything it's that the performance difference between a 4-core and a 8-core will be zero.
Early testing of DirectX 12(from anandtech) support my claim.

[Thony]

DX12 sounds like the best thing happening to PC gaming in last decade.

This shit is hyped beyond the fucking stratosphere.

At the moment i expect to get same fps in DX12 for AAA titles as im getting in CS:GO to be honest.

[Dabombinable]

DX12 sounds like the best thing happening to PC gaming in last decade.

This shit is hyped beyond the fucking stratosphere.

At the moment i expect to get same fps in DX12 for AAA titles as im getting in CS:GO to be honest.

Well games do need to be designed to utilize its features.

[SurvivorNVL]

Fine.  You talked me in to it.  I'll get the 5960x.  God.  So pushy.

[Thony]

New FX GAMING 16core CPU incoming

[Opcode]

DX12 sounds like the best thing happening to PC gaming in last decade.

This shit is hyped beyond the fucking stratosphere.

At the moment i expect to get same fps in DX12 for AAA titles as im getting in CS:GO to be honest.

It's quite a huge topology change. Graphics cards have a dedicated controller responsible for queuing jobs to the shaders which we can actually overload with DirectX 12.

[Dabombinable]

New FX GAMING 16core CPU incoming756669-Spongebob-imagination.jpg

.....that gets flogged by an i series 8 thread CPU (because AMD likes to follow a backwards trend  )

[xtroria]

The graph can be exaggerated, that big of an increase happens when you're doing so many draw calls that it almost reaches (or more) the capacity of directX 11's draw call. We might be seeing 10-15 fps increase with directX 12, basically what we saw with mantle.

 

But then again, I could be wrong, and I hope I'm wrong for the better :lol:

[anticeon]

the reality is most of software today especially the one who use .NET are need huge single core power. even Microsoft Office will beat 6core weak core with 2 core with horse single core. Windows are build to take advantages of Single Core because Windows actually is not gaming OS, if we serius to make Gaming OS then Windows should be rebuild with different Kernel, WDM, and DIrectX to take advantages of multicores. but when they do that they will lost performance on productivity software. its simply PC cant have console-like OS, and console can't have PC-like OS.

[Lord Baal]

Games themselves need to be more demanding before this will actually help anyone with a high end CPU :-( so all of this directX12 bs means nothing (for gamers) when games can't even utilize 100% of a single thread for decent CPU's

[Doobeedoo]

 

 

“I’ve had a lot of meetings with Microsoft, AMD, and a little bit of NVIDIA and Intel – they really need to hit home the fact that DirectX 12, Vulkan, and Mantle, allow all of the cores of your CPU to talk to the video card simultaneously. But everyone’s really iffy about that, because that means acknowledging that for the past several years, only one of your cores was talking to the GPU, and no one wants to go ‘You know by the way, you know that multi-core CPU? It was useless for your games.’” – Brad Wardell

I mean seriously, it took them this long >.<.

Still exciting stuff, can't wait for Windows 10

Also, *looking at your Blizzard*, their games are so badly optimized, so heavily single threaded. Games running on 1 core, those main calculations done on 1 core, some minor parts on others (means almost nothing), not spreaded evenly.

 

And will this unlock my FX-8350 in to 5960X ?