Ever since Microsoft announced DirectX 12, gamers have clamored for hard facts on how the new API would impact gaming. Unfortunately, hard data on this topic has been difficult to come by — until now. Oxide Games has released an early version of its upcoming RTS game Ashes of the Singularity, and allowed the press to do some independent tire-kicking.
DSOGaming writes: "It appears that the first benchmarks for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660Ti have been leaked online. These first tests come from Final Fantasy XV and Ashes of the Singularity and show this upcoming GPU performing as fast as the NVIDIA GTX 1070 and 25% faster than the GTX1060."
YouTube’s ‘Hardware Numb3rs‘ has shared some new interesting gaming benchmarks for AMD’s new Ryzen 7 CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. And according to the results, this new Ryzen CPU is 10% faster in various games than its previous gen version, the AMD Ryzen 7 1700.
concrete increase in real life power .. the gap with intel cpu are dead for half the price .
DSOGaming writes: "Stardock has released a brand new update for Ashes of the Singularity. According to the release notes, patch 2.65 comes with some Campaign improvements, features balance tweaks and map changes, and introduces Quality of Life for its multiplayer mode."
Spoiler alert - the Fury X ties or beats the 980Ti, and they found no evidence of the MSAA "bug" that Nvidia's complaining about.
yes I did. I have AMD and NVidia gpu's. luckily drivers always inprove.
Interesting that this is highlighting the flip-side to DX12's approach to development, which often goes unconsidered.
DX12 will usher in a much more console style of development on PC. This of course means that driver specific optimizations will not be prevalent anymore, as the onus of graphics optimization shifts from the GPU vendor's driver team to a respective game's development team. While this potentially leads to greater enhancements in performance when tended by good developers, it can also lead to technical messes that sometimes plague consoles due to lazier, less savvy developers. And it means that unlike in the past when Nvidia could swoop in and offer 20% performance increases for certain games via driver updates or fix certain glitches without any action from the developers, we now have to almost entirely place our faith in the developers of the game to not screw up graphics optimizations for specific vendors. I'm sure the development teams from Nvidia will continue to work closely with developers on the bigger titles, but beyond that things are unclear.
Luckily for people who plain don't like Gameworks, it means you'll probably see a lot less of that. But that also means that phoned in console ports might be about to either get a lot worse, or happen a lot less due to the increased development overhead in optimization for DX12.
This is all more of a "wait and see" predicament, but it certainly raises some concerns about future PC developments.