DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12 Performance Slides have been revealed. It look a lot like Ma

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DirectX 11 vs DirectX 12 Performance Slides have been revealed. It look a lot like Mantle.

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Read more on Microsoft's DirectX 12 API here.
 
Will DX12 require new hardware? I know that was a rumor a while back that DX12 may not require new hardware and will work with existing DX11.1 hardware. After all the Xbox One is said to be updated to DX12.
 
Will DX12 require new hardware? I know that was a rumor a while back that DX12 may not require new hardware and will work with existing DX11.1 hardware. After all the Xbox One is said to be updated to DX12.

As far as I know so far DirectX 12 will be supported on all AMD GCN GPUs and the GTX 900 series.

In not sure about older Nvidia GPUs, but the 900 series says DX12 support on the box.
 
It'd be nice to see DX12 on 600 series and up on nvidia cards but we will have to see I suppose. Overall though it's nice to see optimisation for PC gaming happening somewhere even if that's not in the games certain publishers are currently pushing out
 
Will DX12 require new hardware? I know that was a rumor a while back that DX12 may not require new hardware and will work with existing DX11.1 hardware. After all the Xbox One is said to be updated to DX12.

Nvidia stated on one of their last conferences that DX12 will be fully supported from the GeForce 400 series and up.
 
Pretty sure DX12 is going to be Windows 10 and above?

Shoot themselves in the foot they will then. Hopefully W7 supports it. I have high hopes for W10 but the amount of games going to be released on DX12 will be minimal, not making it an ideal upgrade for many users. Hell we still have a butt load of games still on DX9

edit: This also explains why AMD cpus are not as fast gaming wise compared to intel. As you can see in the article the DX11 API overhead is nearly entirely single threaded dependent while all other cores hardly do as much work. I think DX12 API will give AMD a boost to performance, or at least is should prove to gain more performance than an intel counterpart.
 
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Software and hardware companies are known to help each other out when it comes to future products, so I wouldn't be surprised that it only supports from 800 (notebook series) and 900 series graphics cards. Since Microsoft has stopped yielding support for windows 7 I'd figure that it would be win 8 and forward compatible only, but who knows maybe they will surprise us by being backwards compatible.
 
Microsoft will only be supporting DX12 on Windows 10 for a while (this is partly how they will make sales and gamers / people transition over to it), DX12 MIGHT come to Windows 7 and 8.x but it won't be there for almost a year, as they will have to re-write some of the OS to integrate it into them (The desktop is run through a DirectX layer amongst other parts the OS)
 
F performance slides, I want in-game screenshots or is this just going to be a faster DX11 with nothing fancy up its sleeves.
 
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