Tom Clancy's The Division DirectX 12 Performance Review

[WYP]

DirectX 12 support has been officially added to Tom Clancy's The Division, with the promise of lower CPU usage and increased performance. Does this update live up to DirectX 12's hype?



Read more on The Division's DirectX 12 update.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Same conclusion as before. AMD are better in DX12. Nvidia still lose performance.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I'd just like to point out.... Since you are testing with a high end cpu and DX12 most famous for reducing cpu stress... why don't you test DX12 vs DX11 on older cpu architectures like bulldozer or ivy/sandy bridge?

Then we might be able to see some great differences about 10 fps or more(?)

 

[Warchild]

I'd just like to point out.... Since you are testing with a high end cpu and DX12 most famous for reducing cpu stress... why don't you test DX12 vs DX11 on older cpu architectures like bulldozer or ivy/sandy bridge?

Then we might be able to see some great differences about 10 fps or more(?)

because of availability

 

[Dicehunter]

Same conclusion as before. AMD are better in DX12. Nvidia still lose performance.

Some people on the OCUK forums were saying they got slightly better performance on DX12 with a 1080.


DX11 maxed out settings including HBAO+, HFTS etc... GTX 1080

DX12 maxed out settings including HBAO+, HFTS etc... GTX 1080

And then this is my own testing with everything maxed/turned on i.e HBAO+, HFTS etc... at 1440P DX11 and DX12, DX12 giving quite a nice boost with the GTX 1080 -

 

[Warchild]

yep DX12 definately running slower for me. But I had SLI enabled on both counts. ill try it again tomorrow with SLI off and see if it boosts my fps when using 1 card.

 

[Dicehunter]

yep DX12 definately running slower for me. But I had SLI enabled on both counts. ill try it again tomorrow with SLI off and see if it boosts my fps when using 1 card.

When I turned off Rivatuner+HWINFO64 I noticed performance upped quite a bit.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Don't believe those first two images. The Fraps gives it away. It doesn't work with DX12. So it's DX11 and the one without it must be DX12.

 

[Dicehunter]

Don't believe those first two images. The Fraps gives it away. It doesn't work with DX12. So it's DX11 and the one without it must be DX12.

It's not Fraps, It's Shadowplays FPS counter which shows up in games run in windowed mode when screenshots are taken, if you run a game in fullscreen though and take a screenshot the FPS counter does not show up in screenies.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's not Fraps, It's Shadowplays FPS counter which shows up in games run in windowed mode when screenshots are taken, if you run a game in fullscreen though and take a screenshot the FPS counter does not show up in screenies.

....
I'm still a nonbeliever!^_^

 

[Dicehunter]

....
I'm still a nonbeliever!^_^

Well I don't know if his pics are accurate but I know mine are, Plus video showing settings and results doesn't lie

Roughly a 3FPS hit on the average FPS when recording.

 

[AlienALX]

Thanks for this Mark. Most places don't bother revisiting games !

Wow, Fury X huh? gotta say I was surprised to see it 9 FPS behind a 1080 ! This is good, because I am just about to give my Fury X rig a severe kick in the pants (1.4ghz increase in clocks over all 8c 16t) and I have been using it as my daily too.

 

[Damien c]

I will stick to DX11, to much of a performance hit on my system when enabling DX12.

Benchmark was ran at 1080P ultra with SLI enabled.


DX12

DX11

 

[Warchild]

When I turned off Rivatuner+HWINFO64 I noticed performance upped quite a bit.

i dont use anything like that.

It seems that those with the 10xx series cards see a gain on dx12 but 9xx series see a performance hit.

 

[SuB]

You were right btw, it's totally only using 1 card, But it still feels smoother and doesn't stutter around and stall so I'm sticking with it for now. If they manage to actually bring some semblance of SLi support with that, all the better

 

[Warchild]

You were right btw, it's totally only using 1 card, But it still feels smoother and doesn't stutter around and stall so I'm sticking with it for now. If they manage to actually bring some semblance of SLi support with that, all the better

yeah well when you go multi gpu you will introduce the microstutter. Nvidia has got worse lately with that. Previous iterations of their drivers were quite good, but I guess they don't address older AAA games as people move on.

 

[SuB]

Oh it's not the micro stutter, it's the second + long pauses and stalls that the game introduces when it gets busy.

 

[Wraith]

Got to admit I'm really hooked and when I get used to the control system I can see me loosing many hours to this game.

 

[SuB]

Got to admit I'm really hooked and when I get used to the control system I can see me loosing many hours to this game.

Add me on uplay man

 

[trawetSluaP]

Add me too guys - trawetsluap

I adore this game, been playing it since release in March. My favourite game of 2016 easily.