How will direct x 12 impact gaming

max_payne32 · Mar 7, 2015

Guys..i am a bit confused...Micorsoft is saying that direct x 12 will "decrease cpu overhead" implying (according to them) that you shall get better framerates on a weaker cpu....also...they are saying that direct x 12 shall increase cpu scaling in games...that game devs can finally take advantage of hex-cored or octa-cored cpus...so then an i7 should give better performance than an i5 when direct x 12 comes out?

coolcole01 · Mar 7, 2015

yes it should as long as the developers make it to do so all of the features that they are talking about have to actually be implemented but the potential is definitely there. Basically what dx12 does is it allows the cores of the cpu to independently talk to the gpu cores not relying on one core at a time greatly increasing what it can get done. But regardless its up to the dev to do it.

Epsilon_0EVP · Mar 8, 2015

Only in games that use the DX12 features. Most games made the way games are done today will not benefit much. A lot of games require very little CPU power, so the limit of performance is usually the graphics card. DX12 will definitely help in higher end games that do use a lot of CPU, though, like RTS games with a lot of AI, games with a lot of physics like Crysis, and so forth.

In general, I wouldn't put too much thought into it. If the details are too confusing, just rest assured that Mantle/DX12/Vulkan will make your hardware run better, essentially for free. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me

max_payne32 · Mar 8, 2015

Epsilon_0EVP :

Thank you for your reply!! really appreciate it

max_payne32 · Mar 8, 2015

Mark the1 :

The graphics card do not process the graphics directly. We got the games in the data from. To decode that data into for that needs by different graphics card to process, we need a software you can say a driver like directx. If you haven't latest graphics card but don't have latest directx then you will no longer game play in good quality. If the driver that decodes that data to process by the graphics card is good, the graphics card can work well and will process that into best graphics output that goes in your monitor. In games, generally the graphics card depends, CPU work a little in games. If you have the latest CPU and not have latest or good graphics card then you will not play the games at good settings.if you have a CPU which is pretty good and have the latest or good graphics card thenyou can play almost all games at ultra settings. That's the way games work.
Mark

Thank you for your reply..but you did not speak about direct x 12..anyways thanks for your time

max_payne32 · Mar 8, 2015

coolcole01 :

Thank you for the response..so i guess its not bad news .there is no reason for an i5 to perform as well as an i7 extreme in games...if game devs can take advantage of more than 4 cores of a cpu then it would be great....and by the way..i see your pc specs are listed...how did you do that?

coolcole01 · Mar 8, 2015

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