GTX 1060 Reviews

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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Ehhhh??? They don't lose performance when switching from dx11 to dx12. At least not with properly optimized dx12 games and AMD...

*graphs*

And while I agree that dx12 won't take everything over overnight, I don't think it will take that long for dx12 to be used in more games. Virtually all games shown in MS press conference will certainly use dx12 which is quite a lot already. And those will start releasing from the Fall of this year. Then you have games from EA and SE using dx12. Dolphin and the wiiU emulators have upgraded to direct x 12 and saw massive gains in performance. Unity has added Direct x 12 support and the list goes on. We also saw what happened with badly optimized dx12 only games such as Quantum Break where it was unplayable with Nvidia cards for the longest time and the performance was half of AMDs.

And its not like either of these cards will perform badly in dx11... So I think people should really think about it before upgrading to a new card.

Edit: Ubisoft will also support Direct x 12 and their first game will be WatchDogs 2.

Hmm, I'll have to find where I read that DX12 performance drop :-/.

And the thing is that those DX12 games will also have DX11 modes. I take DX12 as a bonus option, not the main reason to get any card, at least right now.

And it's important to note that a 10-15% performance (we'll see how is that advantage) difference in DX11 is big enough to being able to enable "Ultra" instead of "Very High" graphics quality, to still being able to reach 60fps without having to dial down some graphic options.

If your plan is to use the card for 2-3 years, then focusing on DX11 results is the way to go, at least in my opinion.

Thats true. I feel like what it will come down to is, Nvidia having Ultra settings in dx11 while AMD having Ultra settings in dx12 for the upcoming games with similar fps. The only thing I am worried about is how many games from MS will be direct x 12 Only. I believe virtually all AAA games that MS has launched in the Windows Store is Direct X 12 Only. So if all those "Exclusive to Windows 10" stuff means its also exclusive to Direct X 12, thats another thing to consider.

I think by the end of the year, we will have enough games to benchmark to really find out where direct x 12 stands in terms of performance and the card it is favoring.