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Adventures in DirectX 12

April 3, 2014 6:37:30 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
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Bottom line: DirectX 12 looks to double perf over DirectX 11 on the same hardware.  The game changing effect of this cannot be understated.

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Reply #1 April 3, 2014 6:41:21 PM
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Bottom line: DirectX 12 looks to double perf over DirectX 11 on the same hardware.  The game changing effect of this cannot be understated.

 

Holy cow! That is freakin' awesome to hear!!

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Reply #2 April 3, 2014 6:47:38 PM
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It sounds like Mantle got them spooked a bit. Now we just need OpenGL to do something similar so we have a fast multithreaded graphics library that works across all platforms. (Mantle only works on GCN, DX12 only works on Microsoft platforms. These overlap, but miss a fair amount of the market.)

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Reply #3 April 3, 2014 6:50:39 PM
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That is great news.

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Reply #4 April 3, 2014 9:12:36 PM
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   MS does do many things well.

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Reply #5 April 3, 2014 9:52:23 PM
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Doesn't Mantle already do this?

Nice to see that AMD was able to get MS to do something they probably should have already been doing.

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Reply #6 April 4, 2014 2:11:52 AM
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I have no idea what I just read. Lol.

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Reply #7 April 4, 2014 10:26:36 AM
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Translation from Geek Speak.  Faster graphics mean more pretty shiny things on your screen.  This is a good thing!

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Reply #8 April 4, 2014 10:38:48 AM
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Sooo galciv will eventually use it? I thought it was 10 or 11?

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Reply #9 April 4, 2014 10:43:43 AM
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Sooo galciv will eventually use it? I thought it was 10 or 11?

Even from MS DX12 isn't really fleshed out yet. They're expecting games that use it to come out in 2015

I also am wary that MS will basically kneecap it by making it Windows8.1 only.

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Reply #10 April 4, 2014 11:20:05 AM
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I just spent hundreds on a laptop with windows 8 and badly miss the desktop. So now I may already be out of date? Damn.

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Reply #11 April 4, 2014 1:29:41 PM
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I am eager to see massive scale RTS games like Total War running with this new speed boost. End of 2015 is a long time though.

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Reply #12 April 4, 2014 3:50:16 PM
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Here I thought that Mantle was the API to increase performance a lot and what happens??   Friggin DirectX 12 comes around and says it will do that!   It might be locked to Windows 8+.

Not sure what SteamOS will have support for....

 

I'ts interesting times!

 

 

 

It's good you posted this. Has more weight when a developer says things.

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Reply #13 April 4, 2014 9:12:29 PM
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Well, to be fair, Mantle is for AMD GPU's with the GCN Architecture, so it has a limited audience currently.  Hopefully the DX12 implementation will work on a wide array of GPU's, from multiple vendors.

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