NVidia and AMD driver performance review [HardOCP]

[richaron]

Ding ding ding!

That's why I supported AMD with their Mantle initiative and glad to see we are finally getting DX12 / Vulkan games. Will be a few years before the benefits are truly there with better designed engines but at least it's progressing! Its amazing how well consoles run compared to many PC ports. Its laughable we have some indie games that run so bad as well. I'm sorry but your 2d side scroller shouldn't be hammering a $400+ video card

"Overpowered and underutilized" has been my slightly depressing tech' mantra for at least a decade now.

I've spent some time with assembly and I wouldn't suggest people go that far, but there is just so much software ~out there~ which doesn't appear to have reached 'optimization' stage of development; Let alone have the 'optimization' stage as a priority.

 

[SirDinadan]

You do some great testing. It's a shame you're using an AMD FX processor instead of an i7 processor when testing GPU frame times. When comparing cards it's important to eliminate any bottleneck whatsoever.

Thanks!

Six months ago I needed a CPU that can handle the GTX1060 so I went for the FX - really didn't want to go Skylake as Kaby Lake was approaching fast. The total cost of the build was really pocket friendly - this was the main aspect of my purchase.

I do understand that some want to eliminate all bottlenecks that could hinder the performance of the GPUs, nothing wrong with that. In my view it's more interesting to find the infection point, what's the most conscious CPU - dGPU paring (diminishing returns). For that I definitely need to have more CPUs, mobos, etc to measure. Unfortunately, ATM I don't have the budget for that - and the view numbers didn't justify expanding the hardware pool.
For now I will work with what I have and see how things progress. And BTW, haven't noticed any frame time anomalies with the current FX build!

 

[Charlie22911]

Nvidia drivers the last few months have been driving me up the wall. First it was the folding issues, now Minecraft.

Of course the latter could be my two watercooled 1080s pouting with me mostly playing Minecraft on them... yeah I've got problems.

 

[tamz_msc]

Identical settings and everything. Only difference is DX11 vs DX12. The benchmarks are much better, but the in game performance is even more amazing with 2X the FPS. That's a doubling of framerate in this game dude.

DX11

DX12

DX11 (48fps)

DX12 (97fps)

Your experience seems to be in line with Microsoft's findings.

Specifically this

and this

1440p seems to be the sweet-spot where the maximum gains from CPU-bound situations can be achieved. It also shows that in the future when you will have a GPU that is powerful enough to no longer be GPU-bound in 4K, DX12 will be even more important. Think Titan X Volta. This is not an unreasonable scenario because generational gains in the CPU front has been much less compared to the gains in the GPU front.

 

[dogen1]

Ding ding ding!

That's why I supported AMD with their Mantle initiative and glad to see we are finally getting DX12 / Vulkan games. Will be a few years before the benefits are truly there with better designed engines but at least it's progressing! Its amazing how well consoles run compared to many PC ports. Its laughable we have some indie games that run so bad as well. I'm sorry but your 2d side scroller shouldn't be hammering a $400+ video card

Imo, developers of 2D side scrollers shouldn't have to worry about hardware (unless maybe they're writing their own engine). If a $400 card can't run one well that's obviously an issue, but I don't think I've seen anything like that.

 

[moonbogg]

By the way Rise of the Tomb Raider is phenomenal. If you haven't played it, I'd suggest it. Really enjoying the game.

 

[tential]

I can't because amd doesn't have a flagship gpu out yet to use with my 4k screen. But thanks for bragging about a game I really want to play.

Soon....

 

[Zanovar]

I can't because amd doesn't have a flagship gpu out yet to use with my 4k screen. But thanks for bragging about a game I really want to play.

Soon....

Sweet jeesus.this graphics card of yours?.i kid i kid.

 

[Carfax83]

By the way Rise of the Tomb Raider is phenomenal. If you haven't played it, I'd suggest it. Really enjoying the game.

I still haven't beaten the game. Got bored once I got to the Geothermal valley

 

[Rayniac]

By the way Rise of the Tomb Raider is phenomenal. If you haven't played it, I'd suggest it. Really enjoying the game.

It was trash in my opinion.

 

[crisium]

Don't worry monboog I liked that game too.