They said it took 4 months though?
DirectX 12 GDC 2014 presentation: Low-Level Access, DX11 GPUs, Holiday 2015
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They said it took 4 months though?
dollartaco
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What they're advertising is an INCREASE in performance. And I don't doubt it a bit. I would have preferred they used a game that had performance issues as an example, instead. The demo really just showed the FPS, but I didn't see a mention of actual visual upgrades.
Good to hear.
It indirectly increases GPU performance if the CPU was the bottleneck because the GPU doesn't have to wait to do its work anymore. (Or at least not that long)
cyberheater
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So my GTX560 Fermi card is going to get DX12. Fab.
legacyzero
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YAS!
Broken Hope
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Maybe this will add a bit more life to my 670 GTX 
VisceralBowl
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You think so? I believe its the perfomance problems of the X1 that is forcing MS in finally take DX more seriously and squeeze all the juice possible to close the gap with the PS4.
A new throttle pedal doesn't give the engine more horse power. Mantle was overhyped a bit as well.
But as I said, reducing the CPU footprint and parallelizing the runtime is certainly a valuable thing especially given the XBO's CPU. I would be surprised though if the XBO doesn't already have many of those improvements. For instance, they already spoke about improved low-level support when they announced the XBO's "mono" driver.
Chobel
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That's the way I see it.
IcyRhythms
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The Forza demo was running on NVIDIA!
VisceralBowl
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"Developers already have DX12 drivers. The Forza demo was running on NVIDIA!!!"
PC Ver incoming
PC Ver incoming
Broken Hope
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Forza was on a PC with Nvidia..
Interesting
They said something about new rendering features.
cyberheater
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What? Megaton.
my point is that when you compare third party games on ps4 vs xbone the GPU is the bottleneck because their CPUs are identical
TC McQueen
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Oh shit... what does it mean!
curlycare
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legacyzero
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PC version confirmed. Hurry! Someone tell that to Game Informer!
justsomeguy
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yup, developers are the target audience, not gamers.
Interfectum
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Boom.
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megaton
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Greywind and VisceralBowl, can you guys draw straws or something and decide who posts the pics? Trying to follow the thread on a phone.
VisceralBowl
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Finally beat me
Didn't they say 4 man months? I believe that means it took a team of 4 one month. I could be wrong though...
Caayn
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To show off the ease of porting between XB1 and PC with DX12?
Dr.Schlomo
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This has nothing to do with comparing 3rd party games on the ps4.
dollartaco
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It was running on nVidia, not an XBO? What the fuck? That confuses the point of the demo even more.
Vestal
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ethomaz
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OMG Xbone with nVidia's GPU?
McHuj
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My guess is their going to try to leverage the easy of portability between Xbox and PC if they're going to use the same(similar) API's so it's easier for third parties to port between them.
EternalTruth
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VisceralBowl
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Only if ported to *NIX. Knowing Microsoft, that won't happen.
Which means if DICE/EA/AMD finally commit to *NIX porting, maybe that'd have a chance with OpenGL.
From one of the leaked slide decks, they apparently wanted, at one point, for the platform to be licensable. Meaning, hardware makers could put the XBone OS on their hardware and sell it.
Chobel
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No mention of AMD?
plagiarize
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yep. 4 man months. that's a really good turn around.
I hope no one is taking it of confirmation of a PC version just because it was running on NVidia hardware. That's just highlighting that it's still platform agnostic, I would imagine.