The excitement surrounding the launch of DirectX 12 and Vulkan seems so very long ago, these modern creations designed to lower the overhead on the system, recruit more CPU cores into running game logic and bring new features to the table. DX12…
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Nvidia Explain VXAO For DirectX 11 & DX12 – Voxel Ambient Occlusion
Rise of the Tomb Raider for the PC is the first title to officially use Nvidia’s VXAO (Voxel Ambient Occlusion) technology thanks to a spiffy new title update (which also added the touted DirectX 12 mode too). VXAO is considered…
Ashes of the Singularity | DirectX 12 Destroys DirectX 11 In Our Early Benchmark & Analysis
Oxide Games have unleashed their eagerly anticipated Ashes of the Singularity, a real time strategy title where tens of thousands of units can battle each other across huge battlefields. Ashes of the Singularity also represents the first chance for gamer’s…
DirectX 12 API Overhead Feature Test | Shows DX12 17X Faster Than DX11
For months we’ve been reading about the performance supposed performance benefits of DirectX 12 with no real way of testing anything for ourselves – and now finally Futuremark have released an update for their 3DMark benchmarking software. This update provides…
Radeon R7 250X & GeForce GTX 740 Benchmark & Review
For those who’re looking for a sub £100 graphics card, you’ve a hell of a lot of options. For AMD and Nvidia alike it’s one of the most lucrative sections of the graphics card market, and despite being a plethora…
AMD Mantle Benchmark | DX11 vs Mantle API On Mid Range GPU
AMD’s shiny new API is out in the wild, already developers such as DICE are embracing Mantle and users who’ve opted for certain AMD GPU’s are taking advantage of the performance gains. But let’s say you’re torn between buying an…
Xbox One eSRAM “Not Complex, Just a Bottleneck”, Claims Developer
The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys…
eSRAM Provides Massive Speedup – Does it For XBox One?
The Xbox One’s memory system – primarily the ESRAM has been the subject of much discussion in the gaming news media. Just a few weeks ago, I ran the piece discussing the issues with the Xbox One’s ESRAM and Resolution…
Beyond The Power – What Next Generation Gives You
What Will PS4 and Xbox 720 Bring Other Than Faster Hardware We expect the next generation of consoles – The XBox 720 and Playstation 4 to be substantially better spec wise than the previous generation. It’s not an unfair expectation,…