Opinions on Direct X 12?

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Marshall Hurtado

Marshall Hurtado

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So I'm wondering what you all may think real-world performance gains would be like on Direct X 12, whether that's speculation or based off any sources. Do you think it's going to be a "game-changer"? A generous boost to PC gaming as a whole? Also, were the differences of DX9 to 10, or DX10 to 11 anything to write home about?

Just curious what you all think.
 
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Maybe a seperate (but associated) Question....

The newer GTX 970 and GTX 980 are advertised as being `new tech that are designed to use Direct-X-12`, but I still dont know if the GTX 780 will be able to use DX-12.

Does anyone know, as I couldnt find a thread on it.

Only asking as I have bids on another iChill GTX 780 (for SLi) and wondered if I should stick or twist.
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Frag Maniac

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In and of itself, since it has to be written for both AMD and Nvidia product, it might not be an extreme boost like Mantle can in some games, since Mantle is primarily written for and beneficial to AMD hardware architecture, but there are many ways an API can be made universally more efficient, just by minimizing how many commands, esp unnecessary repeat commands, are asked of the hardware.

Pascal is the architecture that's really going to take it to the next level by incorporating stacked DRAM, unified memory, and NVLink into the architecture. I'm sure AMD as well are working on architecture changes of their own to prepare for Dx12, but while they were working on Mantle and Crossfire, it was Nvidia that was collaborating on Dx12 with MS.

You can draw your own conclusions from that as to whom will have better (if at all) DX12 support going forward, but it's looking like Nvidia may have the edge at it's launch.
 
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Mouldread

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Hey,

Some 18-20 years ago it was popular among my friends the idea that software and hardware companies work together in order to make you waste more and more money. It goes something like this: Hardware company X produces a GPU for example. It's way ahead of time on productivity and thus makes eventual upgrade unnecessary so they contact a software company Y and "asks them politely" to "overlook" a few bugs in their software so it would tax the GPU much more than it should. So people start craving for the "next gen super GPU" that would work much better and so on. You get the picture.

It might have been small talk among friends but I still think it could be closer to the truth than people think.

So would DX12 be a game changer - yes and no.
 
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Maybe a seperate (but associated) Question....

The newer GTX 970 and GTX 980 are advertised as being `new tech that are designed to use Direct-X-12`, but I still dont know if the GTX 780 will be able to use DX-12.

Does anyone know, as I couldnt find a thread on it.

Only asking as I have bids on another iChill GTX 780 (for SLi) and wondered if I should stick or twist.
 
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