Amd shines in the new vrmark cyan room benchmark designed with dx12

Futuremark is the company responsible for the main benchmarks to evaluate the performance of a graphics card, now it has taken a new step forward with the release of VRMark Cyan Room that has been designed to take full advantage of both DX12 and virtual reality.

VRMark Cyan Room demonstrates the benefits of AMD's graphic architecture

VRMark Cyan Room is a new synthetic test that can be run at up to 5K resolution to take full advantage of the most powerful hardware, this test has been designed from the ground up to take full advantage of the DX12 API by or including all the functions of this and manages to squeeze the hardware to the maximum. AMD is characterized by having an architecture that is much better prepared for DX12 than that of Nvidia, despite the fact that current games are not able to take advantage of the benefits of this hardware, so in general it performs worse than its rival at the same time that consume more energy.

VRMark Cyan Room is great for the GCN architecture of the new AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics that manage to get well above the GeForce GTX 1080, a card that in most games equals or exceeds the Vega 64 consuming much less energy. We also see how the GeForce GTX 1060 is clearly inferior to the Radeon RX 580 so Polaris is also more DX12 ready than Pascal.

Unfortunately they have forgotten to add the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti which should be the real rival of the Radeon RX Vega, it would have been very interesting to have a direct comparison between these two silicons to see which one gets the crown. It's a shame that later in the games the AMD cards cannot maintain this excellent level

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