While Stardock's new Ashes of the Singularity game might not score any impressive game reviews, it is the first game on the market that uses DirectX 12 and according to first tests, AMD certainly benefits from it.

In a direct comparison done by PC Perspective, Radeon R9 390X can get up to 30 percent boost compared to the DirectX 11 mode and manage to outperform the Geforce GTX 980. Unfortunately, the results are a bit shady as the R9 390X performs rather badly when run in DirectX 11 mode, so the aforementioned performance boost might just be the actual performance of the R9 390X in that game.

When two graphics cards are compared at 900p and 1080p resolutions, it appears that AMD's Radeon graphics card benefits from CPUs with higher number of cores and has a narrow performance drop with fewer cores, something that is rather quite interesting.

We are quite sure that both AMD and Nvidia will further tweak their drivers for DirectX 12 and since Ashes of the Singularity is just one of the first games, we still need to see more results in order to draw the final conclusion.







Source: via Techpowerup.com.