DX12 CPU requirements High CPU on DX12 game performance impact

the WIN10 built in DX12 is good for the gaming experience, but the high version of DX also puts a higher demand on CPUs and graphics cards. Microsoft's DirectX has gone through 12 versions, whether it's hardware or games, and has changed dramatically, and advanced technology has brought us a better gaming experience.

Is DX12 CPU demanding? The effect of the old driver's CPU on DX12 game performance

As early as 2014, Microsoft officially released a new generation of API DirectX12 (DX12) on the GDC, DX12 the most important change is the more low-level API, including: The application can track GPU pipelining, control resource State conversion, control resource renaming, less API and drive tracking, Pre-predictable attributes, and so on. See these professional nouns, presumably a lot of people a face Meng, but it doesn't matter, you just need to know DX12 than DX11 more efficient, better quality on the line.

DX12 also has a black technology--greatly improve the multithreading efficiency, can give full play to the potential of multi-threaded hardware, according to Microsoft, Microsoft's use of the core CPU is almost the perfect linear growth, so that completely farewell to the previous core CPU playing games with only a small number of core work, Most of the core is in the situation of the theatre.

So, is that what Microsoft is saying is true or is it blowing up the abuses? Let the old driver test it out today.

The test platform is as follows:

Test Platform Computer Configuration

Since to verify multi-core, then 4 core certainly not enough to see, with 6 core 5820K to test it.

I7-5820K processor

The motherboard is naturally x99gaming.

MSI X99gaming Motherboard

To keep the graphics card from becoming a bottleneck, the latest MSI GTX1080GAMINGX graphics card is used.

Graphics cards remain black and black color, the appearance of the gaming compared to the close, but the radiator has been upgraded to the sixth generation TF6, more efficient.

Gaming Dragon is also retained, and LED is RGB OH.

The video interface is also rich in ash.

Install the video card, omit the process, the whole machine installed in place, the overall effect is as follows.

Test method: 5820K overclocking to 4G, and set 2c4t, 4c8t, 6c12t, each state ran a test, and finally got the game frame rate, to compare.

The following figure is the setting for the three state of the CPU.

At present DX12 game relatively few, and domestic several big crack website all announced no longer cracked game, so I for this test, engaged in 3 steam genuine game, is the singularity point of Ashes, Killer 6, Tomb Raider 10.