Ashes of the Singularity, Rise of the Tomb Raider & Hitman CPU Tests – DX11 vs DX12

[Sweepr]

DX11 vs DX12 Intel CPU Scaling and Gaming Framerate

www.hardocp.com/article/2016/04/19/dx11_vs_dx12_intel_cpu_scaling_gaming_framerate/1

 

[Erenhardt]

I'm a little sick so I'm slow to understand some things, can someone explain what [H] means by this (from the review above):

Thankfully our Radeon 7970 was a bit more interesting, and keep in mind that the 7970 GPU is a full year younger than our GTX 670. I would suggest a direct comparison between the two is not "legit."

 

[AtenRa]

I'm a little sick so I'm slow to understand some things, can someone explain what [H] means by this (from the review above):

No idea. HD7970 officially launched on January 2012 and GTX670 on May 2012.

 

[Sweepr]

The extra cores still can't beat Core i7-6700K @ AotS:

However this time we saw the NVIDIA card perform just slightly slower with the 6700K than the 6950X (but it was a tiny 1.2% decrease). With our Fury X system we saw the 6700K net a 9.1% increase over the 6950X, which of course is certainly more substantial. So all in all, our results with these much newer processors mirrored to what we saw with Haswell and Haswell-E.

So that means these multicore and highly threaded processors can actually give less performance in heavy gaming workloads than their siblings when it comes to DX....in Ashes of the Singularity. It certainly does seem that the issue is seen on the Fury X system much more than our 980 Ti system.

Certainly worth taking into account is that the Skylake processor is generally capable of scaling clocks to 4.5GHz fairly easily and the Broadwell-E processor is not (most folks will not see full-load stable overclocks beyond 4.3GHz). The AotS performance gap between the two processors would continue grow when it comes to enthusiast overclocked realworld systems.

www.hardocp.com/article/2016/06/24/dx11_vs_dx12_intel_6700k_6950x_framerate_scaling/5#.V26AIbgrKhd

 

[RussianSensation]

Just as I have been saying that i7 6700K @ 4.5-4.8Ghz is the best gaming CPU and will beat the $1721 6950X for years to come. 4.3Ghz is a joke as that can be reached on stock voltage with a $20 air cooler. The 4.3Ghz 6950X will require at least a $60 Phanteks style twin tower air cooler.

As far as 7970 vs. 670 goes, HardOCP is completely wrong. 7970 went on sale January 9, 2012.
http://m.hardocp.com/article/2012/0..._overclocking_performance_review#.V26flPT3bCQ

670 went on sale May 20, 2012
http://m.hardocp.com/article/2012/05/10/nvidia_geforce_gtx_670_video_card_review/1#.V26fufT3bCQ

The comparison is valid. In fact we know that today 7970 OC beats 670/680/770 OC and trades blows with a 780/OG Titan.

DX12 is awesome when implemented right. Rise of the Tomb Raider shows major regressions under DX12 vs. 11 though -- clearly an outlier. Cannot wait for true DX12 games.

 

[Sweepr]

Total War: Warhammer DX11

Total War: Warhammer DX12