Hitman – DX11 vs. DX12 @ GTX 980 Benchmark & Graphics Comparison

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We offer a benchmark and graphics comparison of Hitman on PC with DirectX 11 vs. DirectX 12 – PC is set to maximum graphics settings. We used a MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 reference design. Rest of the specs as well as benchmark results can be found at the end of the video. PLEASE NOTE: we did not make an error here. Nvidia cards do not seem to profit from DX12 in this benchmark scene, while AMD cards get huge performance improvements.

[dreadz74]

Wow No Async compute for NVidia :'( no difference at all. The R9 390 dx12 bench marks have much higher increase on DX12. AMD HW is really getting big gains on DX12.

[gfk342]

Of course AMD has the big gains considering that DX12 is just a rebranded Mantle, nothing more nothing less.

So no surprise here, just a confirmation.

[XhiXExtreme]

As far as I know it will only be enabled in the Geforce Drivers the same time 12_1 API releases

[DonkeyDoner]

and here's the difference between amd and nvidia

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-...

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damn amd you money-hatted SE

[darksky]

If this is sign of DX12 games to come then all those who chose the gimped 970 over the R9 390 will be kicking themselves. Thats a huge difference in performance and fantastic gains for AMD.

[DarkOcelet]

DX12 is definitely a win for AMD.

[Pintheshadows]

My housemate has an R9 390. it is a really beautiful card. It has shrugged off everything he has thrown at it so far.

Great value for money as well.

[DonkeyDoner]

then nvidia release gtx 1000 series to counter this

LMAO

[mochachino]

That would be a lot of people. The 970 is one of the most popular cards on Steam.

The real test is using an OC 970. Nobody uses stock clocks and it makes a huge difference.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[ProjectVulcan]

Probably not. http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-... is the link you need to look at to realise this is not a massive deal. Even on DX12 the Fury X/FX-8370 combo gets ass whomped by DX11 mode with the Intel CPU.

The gains are big if you are using an AMD CPU/platform because they are simply not that great gaming CPUs and DX12 gives them a helping hand.

But if you built yourself a gaming machine with an intel (as you should have done if you dropped that much money on a video card) then the gains are not that big. They really don't need as much a helping hand.

You're talking on the order of about 5-10 percent or so on a decent intel machine? 4 frames in this case. It's nice, but it's hardly groundbreaking.

There is currently about what, 10 DX12 games? Only a handful more due this year. Many of those see little to no gains with patched in DX12 support, they are not 'native' DX12 games per se.

By the time there are enough games that utilise DX12 properly let's say 18 months, these cards will be pretty dated anyway and you'll probably be replacing them.

GTX970 is already an 18 month old card as it stands, likely most people have had them for a year or more. This generation will be replaced in 6 months.

[q8kik]

@mochachino

The Nvidia cards are oc'ed
980 Strix 1,316MHz
970 Phoenix 1,342MHz

[FlyingFoxy]

AMD did well there, but people with a 980Ti have little to worry about.. benchmarks show it just as good or better than Fury x, well the overclocked versions anyway, shows it can brute force it with its power.

[awi5951]

@kudostoyou

Yeah with a starting price of 500 dollars i bet. And you will be able to get a more powerful amd card for less still.

[vanity29]

Nvidia just love gimping their cards so you will buy their new card line.

[FlameBaitGod]

AMD was smart cus they where making their cards around DX12 software, nvidia was not.

[Duke19]

Cant believe we are already hitting the peak for the 980 and Fury series. (Barely running max settings @ 1080p)

C'mon AMD and NVIDIA - get your new cards out already

[awi5951]

You dont run those cards at 1080P their frame rates are low at 1080P the fury cards get a boost in performance at 1440P and targeted higher res. The fury cards and perform worse at 1080P frame rates go up to 60 fps at 1440P because they can get away from cpu bottlenecks at higher res. You dont buy a 500 dollar graphcis card then game on it at 1080P thats just stupid.

[forager]

Can nvidia support async on new upcoming graphics cards? If so, then what would be the difference between that card and the amd ones?

[babadivad]

I don't believe they do, don't quote me on that. Things may have changed.

[feraldrgn]

I can't see a difference between DX11 & 12...
Is it something that's only noticeable to a very well trained eye?

[gfk342]

Apparently another smoke and mirrors PR from MS.they said that DX12 will double the performance of the game.

FALSE!!! In case of a nvidia card there is no gains at all. Very little performance gains in case of an Intel/ Randeon PC (around 5-10%). The only large gain is when using an AMD/ Randeon PC, that's it.

DX12 is just annartificial reason (or we can say is just a bait) invented by MS to convince people to install Windows 10.

Having said that, Windows 7 rules!

[baryonyx]

No difference

[gfk342]

Exactly!

MS should explain where is the 100% gain in performance, as they were marketing DX12 last year.

A lot of articles have been debated last year on n4g with people hoping for massive gains.

Just smoke and mirrors from MS. As usual!

[Ulf]

Um.. the game's renderer has to be written for DX12 to take advantage of it. Basically the game has to write the portions of the DX11 driver it would have used itself, without the cruft other games would need.. then voila.. DX12 awesome.

Is it?

If it's written for DX11, it doesn't matter that you have DX12 support on the PC that runs it -- it will use DX11.

Seriously, anyone who doesn't know this shouldn't be posting graphics comparisons.

[quent]

Anyone remember this

http://cybernetnews.com/wp-...

[Slanty]

Its still very early days for dx12.Its gonna take a while for a proper dx12 game built from the ground up for dx12 before we start to see the best out of it.This game and a few others are dx11 with dx12 support patched in,its not the same. And for all the AMD and NVidia fan boys calm down a bit .Some games will perform better on AMD cards with dx12 others will be better on Nvidia.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...