DX12 release

[Umegadem]

When wil DX12 be released? I plan to build a new rig along with my old GTX970 and probably another GPU since I can use another model of GPU with it? (Sry if this is the wrong place to post I have nowhere else to post it) or has it been released without me knowing?

[McHox]

it came with win 10 back in july 2015...

[zberry7]

Direct x 12 is already released. It's a tool that's used by game developers so it takes time to be implemented, but we do have a few games like rise of the tomb raider and ashes of singularity that utilize dx12

[Umegadem]

Just now, McHox said:

it came with win 10 back in july 2015...

Fuq. Then what's with the cross GPU I read about?

[riklaunim]

If you have Windows 10 then you have it. And at the moment AMD latest GPU can use it more efficiently it seems. Polaris and Pascal will likely benefit more, although it's uncertain how async compute will work on nvidia.

[Necrodead]

1 minute ago, Umegadem said:

Fuq. Then what's with the cross GPU I read about?

Only supported games have DX12, and I'm not sure if all of them have multi gpu support for different cards or if it is up to each developer to implement that. 

 

I know you can run ashes of singularity on any 2 gpu's.

 

list of supported games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_support

[zberry7]

1 minute ago, Umegadem said:

Fuq. Then what's with the cross GPU I read about?

Are you referring to using two different GPUs in crossfire/SLI? 

That has to be implemented (like everything else) by the game developer, and that will take time before we see games built specifically for dx12

[Umegadem]

Just now, zberry7 said:

Are you referring to using two different GPUs in crossfire/SLI? 

That has to be implemented (like everything else) by the game developer, and that will take time before we see games built specifically for dx12

Nono, I didn't meant that. What I meant was about NVIDIA cards working with AMD cards

[Necrodead]

Just now, Umegadem said:

Nono, I didn't meant that. What I meant was about NVIDIA cards working with AMD cards

Thats what he meant, crossfire/sli with 2 different gpu's from different manufacturers. 

 

[don_svetlio]

6 minutes ago, Umegadem said:

Nono, I didn't meant that. What I meant was about NVIDIA cards working with AMD cards

For that you need support from both AMD and Nvidia as well as the game devs. It's not likely to happen

[Prysin]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

For that you need support from both AMD and Nvidia as well as the game devs. It's not likely to happen

you only need game devs to support it.

DX12 can bypass drivers to quite an extent.

 

Ashes of the Singularity has the feature already.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Prysin said:

you only need game devs to support it.

DX12 can bypass drivers to quite an extent.

 

Ashes of the Singularity has the feature already.

Weren't there driver issues with it? I seem to recall it only working when AMD cards are used as the main one

[Prysin]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Weren't there driver issues with it? I seem to recall it only working when AMD cards are used as the main one

nop. Driver issues was during DX9 and DX11 when people used old NV cards for PhysX. Then Nvidia decided to block the ability to do that.

 

It works with either being the main card, but it gets the biggest boost with the AMD card being the "boss"