When Windows 10 launched on July 29th, it also heralded the arrival of DirectX 12. Microsoft, AMD and Nvidia have been touting the API's benefits for months now, saying it would be up to 20 percent faster and act like a free hardware upgrade for PC gamers. But is it truly faster than DirectX 11?
Sadly, we'll have to wait a bit longer to get the full story, since there aren't any DirectX 12 games that'll ship before the end of 2015. However, today we can report on the results of one test that uses an actual real-world game engine: Stardock shared with us an alpha DX12 test build of its upcoming RTS game, Ashes of the Singularity. It supports both DirectX 12 and older versions of DirectX (depending on your hardware), which allowed us to test both DX11 and DX12 on the same system back-to-back.
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Sadly, we'll have to wait a bit longer to get the full story, since there aren't any DirectX 12 games that'll ship before the end of 2015. However, today we can report on the results of one test that uses an actual real-world game engine: Stardock shared with us an alpha DX12 test build of its upcoming RTS game, Ashes of the Singularity. It supports both DirectX 12 and older versions of DirectX (depending on your hardware), which allowed us to test both DX11 and DX12 on the same system back-to-back.
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