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Nvidia and DirectX

laxielaxie Member RarePosts: 1,123
in Hardware
My father was at a conference, where he heard the Nvidia GFX cards struggle with the latest DirectX. Apparently this is a deal-breaker for many people?

I know little about this. I was looking forward to saving up for a GTX1080. Is this something I should be worried about? Taking price completely out of the equation, is Nvidia a solid pick over any upcoming high-end AMD card?

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  • jusomdudejusomdude Member RarePosts: 2,706
    The 1080 smokes any AMD card out now even in dx12. But AMDs higher performance cards are supposed to be out sometime within 6ish months. AMD cards generally have better performance in dx12 games where they're similar in dx11 though.
  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    edited July 2016
    So far, the data points to the following:

    AMD cards get a performance increase going from DX11 to DX12
    nVidia cards don't really get that, at best they are about the same, under some conditions slightly worse performance.

    It's not huge - under the biggest delta, a Fury X will match a 980Ti, nothing AMD has out there can touch a 1080 yet.

    The next round of cards isn't due until late Fall/Winter. Apart from supply stabilizing out (which will stabilize prices at something approaching sanity), what we have out now will be what we have available for the next few months - at least on the upper tiers.
  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    Not really, large developers will always develop for the widest audience. Like the past iterations of DX since DX10, nVidia is late implementing it's features. It probably will be fully implemented on nVidia cards next year. Chances are developers will not utilize the fullest of DX12 for at least another 2 years. Higher end nVidia cards should have no problem powering through DX12 implemented games for the next 2 years.

    I would keep a couple things in mind. The main push for DX12 are console titles that are utilizing ASync more to get the most out of the hardware. The hardware coming out for the PC now will easily get 60 fps out of console titles despite how poorly they implement DX12.
    The main disparity is seen in strategy games like Ashes of Singularity or Total War: Warhammer. They are able to make more use of GPU compute due to AI. If you are a strategy game player, it would be difficult to suggest nVidia at this point.
    I would also not suggest getting nVidia at this point if you are planning to keep your GPU for more than 2 years. They will simply be trumped in the performance per watt, performance per dollar, and performance per ghz after that point with their current architecture. It would be a waste of money.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531
    It's not clear whether the DirectX 12 games that are out now are just pro-AMD outliers or whether DirectX 12 itself will push things in a far more pro-AMD direction.  Just about anything that's heavy on non-graphical compute will be considerably more pro-AMD than pure graphics, and AMD is definitely pushing developers in that direction.  Nvidia used to push developers in that direction until they couldn't get them to use CUDA, whose chief virtue is that it doesn't run on AMD.
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