Futuremark has recently added support for DirectX 12 in its 3DMark benchmark and it appears that AMD has jumped to get a chance and show some performance numbers which puts the R9 290X neck to neck with the GTX Titan X.

While these are still just early results coming from PC Perspective and PC World sites, these clearly show that AMD's Radeon R9 290X manages to not only outperform the GTX 980 by 33 percent in DirectX 12 but also go neck to neck with US $999 priced Titan X graphics card.

According to seen results, coming from PC World, which shows drawcall handling between different APIs, shows that AMD R9 290X is doing quite well with around 13.5 million drawcalls in DirectX 12, which is also what GTX Titan X is able to achieve in the same benchmark. PC Perspective results are focused on frames-per-second which show that R9 290X delivers 19.12 FPS in DirectX 12 which is way ahead 15.67 FPS on GTX 980.

While Mantle did quite good as well, with 20.88 FPS, it is obvious that DirectX 12 will be the future on Windows 10 OS. Of course, these are results from a synthetic benchmark and are far from what we expect to see in real world performance and games once they are released later this year.

Also there have been some issues that put the GTX 960 close to GTX 980 performance as well as R9 290X close to R9 285, which can be attributed to the fact that there are plenty of other bottlenecks when it comes to that testing as well as ways that these are tested, involving polygons and textures without any shaders.

In any case, it looks like DirectX 12 will bring some rather impressive performance gains and hopefully, Nvidia issues are driver related so we might see some better performance once these are sorted out.







Source: via Wccftech.com.