nVidia announces a Game Ready driver for DX12 titles - expected perf gains up to 33%

[zMeul]

source: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-gameworks-dx12

via: http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/103006-nvidia-announces-gameworks-directx-12-software-tools/

 

 

at GDC nVidia announced GameWorks™ DX12, a suite of tools for game devs aimed at shortening the development cycle for DX12 games

that's not what's interesting, the part that's really interesting is this:

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Game Ready Driver Optimized for DX12 

NVIDIA also revealed an upcoming Game Ready Driver optimized for DirectX 12 games. The company refined code in the driver and worked side by side with game developers to deliver performance increases of up to 16 percent on average across a variety of DirectX 12 games, such as Ashes of the Singularity, Gears of War 4, Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy's The Division.⁽¹⁾

 

⁽¹⁾ Figure averages the percentage increase of benchmark numbers in the following: GeForce GTX 1080 at 3840x2160 with launch driver 368.81 vs 378.74 on an Intel Core i7 5930K, 16GB DDR4 using Win10 x64. Ashes of the Singularity, Crazy Preset (46.5, 50.9 or 9%), Tom Clancy's The Division 1.6, Max Settings + 1x SMAA Ultra (31.5, 32.7 or 4%) Hitman, High Settings + High SSAO (50.6, 62.1 or 23%), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Very High + 2x SSAA (20.5, 27.2 or 33%), and Gears of War 4, Ultra Preset (41.2, 45.2 or 10%).

 

nVidia fine wine, eh ?! 

 

from the wording I suspect GTX9xx series won't get same love

would be interesting to see if GTX1060 will close the gap in select DX12 titles (Hitman) against RX480

[VagabondWraith]

Free performance? I'll take it. 

[PCGuy_5960]

Now we will have to retest the the GTX 1060 and RX 480....

[The Benjamins]

Did the lunch driver 368.81 see decrease in performance versus DX11 benchmarks?

[Princess Luna]

I still play all my games in DX11 but sure... why not.

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

I still play all my games in DX11 but sure... why not.

I play The Division in DX12 - the interesting thing I found about it is that it does transitions (instances, fast travel across the map) much much faster

[B-17rocks]

Im guessing that the GTX 9XX series and GTX 9XXM series wont be getting love

[Majestic]

What about framepacing and frametiming, because that's the biggest issue with DX12. And this appears only to be working on Pascal?

[DildorTheDecent]

I play none of those games. 

 

Skip! 

[raphidy]

Okay, I'll get back to The Division then. I usually choose dx11 when I have the choice, it is more stable.

[VanayadGaming]

14 minutes ago, zMeul said:

nVidia fine wine, eh ?! 

 

What's so fine when it is only the current gen ?

[Bsmith]

sounds like only the 10xx series get the update, not really unusual for Nvidia to only support the newest generation with performance improvements.

[goodtofufriday]

I'll balee dat when i see dat

[ivan134]

DX 12 Maxwell - soon TM

[TidaLWaveZ]

I heard somewhere that almost 90% of all of the Freon on Earth can be found in old refrigerators.

[Notional]

17 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

DX 12 Maxwell - soon TM

Sure.. just like proper asynchronous compute support... Soon ™

 

Anyways, great news. Now that NVidia doesn't suck ass at DX12, maybe more devs will actually start using it. And maybe the NVidia bribed sponsored games, won't gimp the frack out of DX12 *cough*ROTTR*cough*.

[tlink]

no plz don't blow life into dx12. I want to see it shrivle and die so vulcan can blossom.

[Valentyn]

25 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

DX 12 Maxwell - soon TM

Fermi users still waiting for that promised Vulkan and DX12 support as well.

[Notional]

Just now, tlink said:

no plz don't blow life into dx12. I want to see it shrivle and die so vulcan can blossom.

If devs make the effort to get DX12 to work, they will have done a lot of the work for Vulkan too. Good DX12 support should improve Vulkan adoption, not make it worse.

[tlink]

16 minutes ago, Notional said:

If devs make the effort to get DX12 to work, they will have done a lot of the work for Vulkan too. Good DX12 support should improve Vulkan adoption, not make it worse.

I didnt say it would make it worse, just that I think they should prioritize vulkan optimization over dx12 optimization. Dx12 shouldnt take the main stage when vulkan is simply superior (nobody could ever point me towards a major bennefit of dx12 beyond microsoft paying them or helping them if they use it)

[zMeul]

20 minutes ago, tlink said:

no plz don't blow life into dx12. I want to see it shrivle and die so vulcan can blossom.

even if it's seriously twisted, I agree with

[Notional]

Just now, tlink said:

I didnt say it would make it worse, just that I think they should prioritize vulkan optimization over dx12 optimization. Dx12 shouldnt take the main stage when vulkan is simply superior (nobody could ever point me towards a major bennefit of dx12 beyond microsoft paying them or helping them if they use it)

 

Well AMD just announced a coop with Bethesda, to get all their (new I guess), games to support Vulkan. So I assume that will be based on the Doom engine or so? Maybe even Prey will support it. Should gain AMD massive performance boosts. Then again, the only reason to prefer Vulkan to DX12, is really the platform agnostic nature of Vulkan.

[Ryujin2003]

1 hour ago, zMeul said:

source: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-gameworks-dx12

via: http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/103006-nvidia-announces-gameworks-directx-12-software-tools/

 

 

at GDC nVidia announced GameWorks™ DX12, a suite of tools for game devs aimed at shortening the development cycle for DX12 games

that's not what's interesting, the part that's really interesting is this:

 

nVidia fine wine, eh ?! 

 

from the wording I suspect GTX9xx series won't get same love

would be interesting to see if GTX1060 will close the gap in select DX12 titles (Hitman) against RX480

Your title is very misleading (clickbait-ish). Yes, 33% on one single game, and 23% in another. All while some are drastically lower. I'm sure there are some games with no increase at all. Just as speculated with Ryzen, any of these performance games could very well be cherry picked to improve the perceived quality of their products. Also, this is on a 1080, so while any improvement is awesome, I would expect much less as you move down to 1070 and 1060. Again, specific games pending....

 

But as others have stated, we'll have to wait for the 3rd party benchmarks.

[zMeul]

Just now, Ryujin2003 said:

Your title is very misleading (clickbait-ish). Yes, 33% on one single game, and 23% in another. All while some are drastically lower. I'm sure there are some games with no increase at all. Just as speculated with Ryzen, any of these performance games could very well be cherry picked to improve the perceived quality of their products. Also, this is on a 1080, so while any improvement is awesome, I would expect much less as you move down to 1070 and 1060. Again, specific games pending....

 

But as others have stated, we'll have to wait for the 3rd party benchmarks.

UP TO

I also included the footnote to have exact details on what's what

[Ryujin2003]

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

UP TO

I also included the footnote to have exact details on what's what

Yes I saw the up to, with an Avg of 15.8%. Wasn't trying to be nit-picky.