Did Microsoft Put Secret Sauce in Xbox One? DX12 May Allow Xbox One To Save GPU Time, Render Ray Tracing, SuperFog And Custom Effects

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FrontlineJaguar said:

Xenostar said:
Of course the APIs and drivers will improve, thats the same for any hardware, but no there is no such thing as secret sauce. The hardware is what it is.

@xenostar @vivster api's and drivers are going to improve but if you bing it or google it you can see a decent amount of difference between directx 11 and 10 amd mantle improved the perfomance by huge means 30-35% so directx can. Their are many things ms has to answer about.

As I said in my post a new version of DirectX will not improve any console significantly. Improvements like Mantle only work on PC because it brings the API closer to the hardware. The consoles however are already as close to the hardware as it gets so nothing to gain here.