DirectX 12 to be announced at GDC!

[Shinobi-san]

deadeyye said:

 

Shinobi-san said:
I really dont see how it matters if DirectX12 comes to XBO or not?

Consoles will reach there limits pretty soon regardless.

The Xbox One gpu can hardly take full advantage of DirectX11 nevermind 12. It took quite a while before 11 was widely used on PC's..and considering how weak the console gpu's are its gonna take even longer for 12 to get adopted.

You are wrong to assume that new DX brings new features and thus requires more resources. This was case with previous versions of DX, but DX12 is all about low level implementation of same features. In other words, it allows devs to use same resources of gpu in much efficient way, similar to Mantle. Sony has always allowed devs to have low-level access to gpu, while MS has not, forcing use of DX with it's constaints. So this could bring nice perfomance improvements and much more freedom to optimise.

 

oh so DX12 wont bring new features that requires more resources :) ? Pretty sure it will.

Also considering that the X1 is a console, devs were always going to push the hardware with or without DX12. Perhaps the only thing DX12 does is speed up that process.

Although my initial post was looking at things as whole and not as of right now.