Nvidia & AMD Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DX12 Benchmarks - Radeons Gain, GeForces Lose Performance

The DirectX 12 patch is out and the cards take been put to the test, Nvidia & AMD GPUs tested & benchmarked with surprising results. The DirectX 12 patch for Eidos Montreal'southward latest feature championship Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has been an eagerly awaited one and for expert reason. The futuristic showtime person story driven RPG is one of the nearly visually stunning nosotros've seen yet but it's as well one of the most demanding. This is one of the few games that, we're told, that has been designed and developed with DirectX 12 in mind.

Following several other successful and not then successful DirectX 12 game launches of late, gamers looked forrad to Eidos Montreal's latest title to exercise Microsoft's low level API justice and deliver on the operation and visual quality promises. And today we can report that it has indeed delivered on those promises, so long as you're a Radeon user. As sadly, the current situation with Nvidia hardware is not satisfactory to put it lightly.

Deus Ex: Flesh Divided DX12 Benchmarked On Nvidia & AMD - Performs Poorly On GeForce

The DirectX 12 patch has been released a few hours ago and several publications take published performance data on on a collection Nvidia and AMD hardware. Guru3D's data shows a 5-15% improvement in performance on AMD ( RX 480, Fury X & R9 390X ). Surprisingly however, on Nvidia hardware performance actually dropped with DirectX 12 compared to DirectX 11.

The GeForce GTX 1080 saw its operation cut significantly at 1080p and slightly at 2560x1440 and 4K. Its fiddling brother the GTX 1060 saw no operation loss or gain on average at the three aforementioned resolutions. Withal in our internal lab testing the GTX 1060 exhibited the aforementioned effect, losing performance at DX12 compared to DX11. The GTX 980 saw some performance loss at 1080p and 2560x1440 with no change at 4K.

DSOGaming report similar functioning deposition with Nvidia GeForce graphics cards as well, recommending that Nvidia users avoid using DirectX 12 "at all costs" until the upshot is resolved. The development team published a argument apropos the performance degradation that nosotros've seen on Nvidia GPUs. Revealing that indeed there's currently an upshot affecting high cease GeForce GPUs in particular that has been identified and is being addressed.

Known DirectX 12 result:
- There is a known bug that causes some very high cease cards to regress relative to DirectX xi. This bug is being addressed by the evolution team.

So for the meantime nosotros recommend that all Nvidia users stick to DirectX 11 to avoid any functioning loss.

DirectX 12 Benchmarks

WCCF Lab

Performance Data From AMD

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DirectX 12 Operation Data By AMD

DirectX 12 Patch Notes

As of today, users are also able to apply the awaited DirectX 12 Graphics API. To activate this you are required to practise the following:

Inside your Steam Library, correct-click on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Select 'properties' from the context bill of fare and navigate to the Beta tab.

From the dropdown menu, select dx12_preview then close the window.

After the game has downloaded the DirectX 12 supported build you tin can then toggle DirectX 12 from either the launcher window or from the Display options inside the game.
Note that DirectX 12 requires a restart of the game if (de-)activated from inside a running Deus Ex: Mankind Divided game session.

o WARNING: Using the DirectX 12 API can offering meliorate performance on some systems, however, it volition not exist beneficial on all.
o Multi-GPU is not yet supported in this patch.
o If you encounter problems with DirectX 12, nosotros recommend turning it off again. At that place are no visual or gameplay differences between the two DirectX versions.
o As always, make sure that your drivers are up to date:

DX12-supporting driver for AMD graphics cards: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Crimson-Edition-16-9-1-Release-Notes.aspx

DX12-supporting driver for NVIDIA graphics cards: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/107012/en-united states of america

Known DirectX 12 upshot:
- There is a known bug that causes some very high terminate cards to backslide relative to DirectX 11. This problems is being addressed past the evolution team.

While nosotros await this patch to be an comeback for anybody, if you lot practice have trouble with this patch and prefer to stay on older versions, we have made a Beta available on Steam, v1.0_build524.6, v1.0_build524.7, v1.1_build524.10, v1.2_build524.15 and v1.3_build524.17 that can be used to switch back to previous versions.