Amd shows some hardware improvements with directx 12

AMD has taken advantage of the latest 3DMark update and its new “API Overhead feature test” tool to subject its hardware to the new test and show the excellent results obtained with the new Microsoft API.

Firstly, it has shown the enormous difference in performance that exists between the outdated DirectX 11 and the new DirectX 12, for this they have used a Radeon R9 290X obtaining an increase of 1547% in the number of Draw Calls and a modest Radeon R7 260X which has shown an improvement of 953%, a more discreet figure but that is still very large.

They have also used one of their APUs in the new 3DMark test, specifically they have used the most powerful model they have, the A10 7850K of the Kaveri family, which has gone from 556, 638 Draw calls in DirectX 11 to a figure of 3, 406. 327 Draw Calls under the DirectX 12 API, a 510% improvement with very discreet hardware like that of an APU.

Finally, they show us the excellent scalability of their FX processors under the new API DirectX 12 seeing a linear increase in the number of Draw Calls up to the six cores, from there the performance is no longer increased. A very different situation to what we observed with DirectX 11 since in this case there is no increase in performance beyond the two cores.

DirectX 12 undoubtedly promises a lot but the most important thing is that all these improvements are transferred to video games that make use of the new Microsoft API and that we really see an improvement over DirectX 11, something that unfortunately nobody can assure.

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