DX9 vs DX10 vs DX11

[thelion4ever]

I have a GTS 250 and with the upcoming Crysis 2 game on the way , I was wondering which is better in terms of performance. My GTS250 supports up to DirectX 10.1 only but lets say I have a GTX460 , which supports DX11.

1.I read articles that said you could get higher frame rates in DX11 compared to DX9, is this true ???

DX11>DX10>DX9

2.Is the frame rate loss worth it if I use DX10 instead of DX9??

3. Will Crysis 2 support DX??

 

[Pc Guru_07]

Dx11 tessellation kills frame rate.Till date i haven't seen a single game where tessellation dramatically improves eye candy. Crysis 2 will support dx11.

 

[evilgenius134]

DX11 can be more efficient compared to DX10, but the added graphical features, like lighting effects and tessellation reduce that boost, especially on first generation DX11 cards.

It's certainly worth it getting a Geforce 500 series or Radeon 6000 series to use DX11 over the 400 and 5000 series respectively.

 

[gamerk316]

DX11 CAN be faster then DX9/DX10, assuming you do nothing but use DX10/9 features using DX11 code [which doesn't make much sense from a development standpoint]. Throw in Tesselation [which is VERY expensive performance wise], and you'll see performance decreases in most all implementations.

 

[jaguarskx]

DX9 will give you the best performance.

DX10 has very little quality improvement over DX9, but with a significant performance hit.

DX11 is a little more efficient than DX10 so playing a DX10 game with a DX11 card should provide a little better performance. DX11 cards have a feature called Tessellation which basically increases the actual number of polygons objects have to create more detail. This only works with DX11 titles. Since creating more polygons on the fly takes processing power, performance will decrease.

Performance winner = DX9
Eyecandy winner = DX11
Total Loser = DX10

 

[Trialsking]

Performance winner = DX9
Eyecandy winner = DX11
Total Loser = DX10

I liked the way you simplified it! :lol:

 

[thelion4ever]

DX9 will give you the best performance.

DX10 has very little quality improvement over DX9, but with a significant performance hit.

DX11 is a little more efficient than DX10 so playing a DX10 game with a DX11 card should provide a little better performance. DX11 cards have a feature called Tessellation which basically increases the actual number of polygons objects have to create more detail. This only works with DX11 titles. Since creating more polygons on the fly takes processing power, performance will decrease.

Performance winner = DX9
Eyecandy winner = DX11
Total Loser = DX10

Best answer DUDE

Thanks to everyone for the info

 

[thelion4ever]

Best answer selected by thelion4ever.

 

[thelion4ever]

BTW Will crysis 2 support DX9??

 

[Mousemonkey]

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