New generation card review

VR Dextrovix

VR Dextrovix
That's quite a thorough review and worth a read, thanks!

I bought a 980Ti not two months ago so I think I'll be waiting for a while now, but it is encouraging the steps forward in performance that have been made by nVidia.

Although, some of those improvements will need DirectX 12 of course, as will ED to benefit from them... ;)

But for VR, even a top end card isn't enough until we can get the fidelity as well as the 90 FPS (we're not asking much are we...!), so the more the manufacturers can innovate the better.
 
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Beachlight7

Beachlight7
The GTX 1080 performs worse on DX12 games than in DX11 mode, So something is not right yet. Tested by Digital Foundry.

Ashes of the Singularity, Extreme, 0x MSAA, 4K ------------ DX12 53.3fps --------- DX11 53.7fps
Hitman, Ultra, SMAA, 4K ---------------------------------- DX12 47.0fps --------- DX11 47.7fps
Rise of the Tomb Raider, Ultra, SMAA, 4k ------------------- DX12 45.8fps ---------- DX11 48.0fps
 
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[HJ]-RedRaven

[HJ]-RedRaven
Drivers will still be pretty immature (by nVidia's own standards), and developers will need to make at least some use of the more advanced hardware and render pipeline feature changes too.
 

Beachlight7

Beachlight7
DX12 was announced in 2014 and released about a year ago in July 2015. Developers have had their chance at it. There must be a reason DX12 is by default running slower than DX11 on Nvidia cards, even with over a year of refinement and research to improve the drivers. AMD cards are working well with improvements in general straight away running on DX12. I don't about the problem but it seems too much of a technical barrier exists to make it an easy thing to make DX12 many leaps ahead of DX11, money must be pouring down a hole trying to get DX12 to perform even as good as DX11. It seems quite odd from a lay point of view. I would be tempted to look at another technology development instead of DX12 if there is such a thing? As far as Nvidia are concerned anyway. AMD seem ok with it.
 
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