One of the major advantages of the upcoming DirectX 12 API is its ability to use two completely different GPUs at the same time as well as mix graphics cards from both AMD and Nvidia. The newest report from Anandtech.com has investigated this ability and some of the first results are quite positive.

Using Ashes of the Singularity tech demo, which is currently the only demo that supports the DirectX 12 multi-GPU Explicit Multi-adapter feature, Anandtech.com managed to mix AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X and Geforce GTX 980 Ti on the same motherboard and got some rather impressive performance results, comparable to R9 Fury X and R9 Fury combination.

The aforementioned combination even managed to outperform the Geforce GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X combination as well as AMD Fury X and R9 Fury combination at 4K/UHD resolution. This makes the upgrade to a better and faster graphics card easier for users as well as make your old graphics card usable.

For example, AMD Radeon HD 7970 on its own can reach 30FPS at 1440p resolution in most games but when combined with GEforce GTX 680, it averages out at 46FPS, which is a nice performance boost.

The ability to combine two different GPUs that were previously not usable on the same motherboard and even two GPUs from different manufacturers, probably makes this the best feature of the upcoming DirectX 12 API, at least when an average consumers is concerned.

You can check out a detailed performance analysis as well as more graphs over at Anandtech.com via a link below.








Source: Anandtech.com.