Xbox One will Double Performance with DirectX12

[DonFerrari]

selnor1983 said:

DonFerrari said:

selnor1983 said:

DonFerrari said:
Before release people said MS would have the better API and that would balance HW difference, then they say SDK was garbage (justificative for inferior ports) and now a new API and SDK will make it double perform... Why do I find it hard to believe amidst all this flip flop of defensors? Please decide if. MS is a great SW developer and it will enhance API or they are shit and made an horrible API before, you can't have both. You just have to accept MS is at least pretty good SW dev and the first SDK was good, but the new one will be better. So what we can really count on is that both consoles will get better SW (API and games) and the difference will probably stay stable.

Before release it was rumoured one manufacturer was behind schedule. The developers told us MS SDK was behind. It wast garbage, MS just reacted to Sonys early release of PS4. MS were the ones rumoured to release in 2014. So yes MS were behind on SDK in developments aligned with PS4 SDK. The facts were there fo people who waned to read them. It was just not as fun as saying 50% advantage. When it has never worked that way even ith PC GPU's 50% supposed paper specs dont translate into 50% better results at all. Never has never will. 

I do believe MS have rushed a console release for the 2nd time... just don't agree with people that first said 50% would be BS because MS was a good SW dev, and would certainly have a better SDK than Sony (as proved by X360 being easier to dev than PS3), and that ESRAM would be easy as cake because X360 used EDRAM. And them when the first games came (even without any report of the reason) they put the blame on ESRAM being more difficult and SDK being obsolete... and now they believe DX12 will solve everything and/or new SDK... so yes I have reason not to believe this people.

And the worst part is to have to hear that everybody that doubt it is a hater and doesn't want to see X1 get better... It's quite tiring as well being called names and see people play victim...

In the end of course X1 games will get a lot better.

Ho did you come to that conclusion? 

SDK was behind. Part of the recent SDK roll out in February was to take a new problem not existing on EDRAM in that 1080p at 60fps could not traditionally fit onto 32 mb. The developers could program there own tiling tecnique but that added development time, so the easier option for 3rd parties like Ghosts or BF4 was to just drop the res so it fit on 32mb. The fact this only rolled out in Feb from MS so the devs have the tiling done for them shows MS weren ready for Nov release. 

DX12 is different again. It allows the CPU and GPU to do the sam tasks but much more efficiently. So whereas on DX11 Ryse may hit limits in places,DX12 can achieve the same as RYSE but have headroom for more tasks. The ESRAM issue was SDK coming after release. DX12is improving CPU and GPU efficiency not capable on DX11 at all. 360 used the same DX its entire gen. The One is th first console to have an upgaded DX. And in this case a big benefit to resources.

What conclusion you are asking?? That both will have great games?? By the fact that MS fans love MS franchises and will find their games great, and the same applies to Sony fans =]

About DX for X1 I would say since it was made as DX12 compatible from the start it was developed to be one DX for the gen, just really delayed. But I wouldn't seriously get my hopes up for MS PRs since they have been very misleading, including in the "no way we would allow 30%+ of advantage" when promissing to correct it in 2 years.