Monday, December 19th 2016
Tom Clancy's "The Division" Gets DirectX 12 Update, RX 480 Beats GTX 1060 by 16%
Over the weekend, gamers began testing the new DirectX 12 renderer of Tom Clancy's "The Division," released through a game patch. Testing by GameGPU (Russian media site) shows that AMD Radeon RX 480 is about 16 percent faster than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, with the game running in the new DirectX 12 mode. "The Division" was tested with its new DirectX 12 renderer, on an ASUS Radeon RX 480 STRIX graphics card driven by Crimson ReLive 16.12.1 drivers, and compared with an ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB STRIX, driven by GeForce 376.19 drivers. Independent testing by German tech-site ComputerBase.de supports these findings.
Sources:
GameGPU, ComputerBase.de, Expreview
142 Comments on Tom Clancy's "The Division" Gets DirectX 12 Update, RX 480 Beats GTX 1060 by 16%
Most people just read the OG reviews and fail to read recent reviews when they hunt for a GPU upgrade. Don't worry Vega 10 will be 30 -50% stronger than the Fury X, and it will be out in a few months. But they don't want to release a new Fury, 490, or 495x2 until they all curb-stomp the competition.
Actually, most buyers of mid/low end GPUs keep them for years.
"DX12/Vulkan is irrelevant, since GPUs will be obsolete" is not serious even if that wouldn't be the case, as if I play Doom it matters to me, here and now.
Have you been living in a cave or something?
It's seems like some others here you opt for playing the "victim card".
not even Fury X finishes between the 1070 and 1080. Usually.
The "DX12/Vulkan is irrelevant, since GPUs will be obsolete" statement is true, because that's the situation with most titles available now. It does not mean "do no buy a 480 no matter what". IF you happen to play Doom and only Doom, than yes, the 480 is probably the card to get. If you play Doom and something else, things change. And guess what, most of the games don't play just Doom.
Other reasons to buy the 480 could be "it's cheaper than 1060"; which is the case for MSRP, but usually you can't get the 480 at MSRP. If you can, however, even if the 1060 is technically faster in many titles, that rarely (if at all) translates into an ability to play the same game at higher resolutions. Or another reason people buy the 480 is the "I want to support AMD open source drivers for Linux effort".
Dumping this shitty haswell, too lol
I still want your GTX 980 Ti.
AMD is now filling a different kind of void, on the CPU side which is fár more important for them financially, and on the GPU software end they now also have a nice, rounded set of tools. All of this will benefit a next high end GPU. They are also finally turning around the negative PR that's surrounded them for so long.
AMD is waiting to release cards when they will be fully taken advantage of. Software and PR are a big part of that. Nothing uneducated about my guess, and on the contrary it is common sense what is going on.
They could've shit out a card, I'm sure, but the gains and power consumption wouldn't have been worth the money (lost) and the flop it would be.
Some more well optimized DX12 (à la DX:MD)/Vulkan games and Nvidia will be crying about profit margin loss.
Two of them should be good to go,.....
I tried it out in my favorite games and I'm impressed. It's faster than my 8-GB Sapphire R9-390X Toxic card is.
I don't know if I'm gonna have DX-12 though. Win-10 sucks. (and yeah, I've tried it out for a long time)
So by no means am I saying some 4096-SP/HBM card would have been ready months ago; but I am saying that AMD could have without a doubt released something stronger by now.
Some 3072-3584-SP chip with 8-12GB of GDDR5X would have been fairly easy to make by now. But it wouldn't beat the 1080 all that easily, and AMD's perception isn't quite where they want it to be to fully capitalize on a performance (or price/perf) enthusiast win. And again, the 480 has captured marketshare better than the Fury X ever did.
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nv/ati fans: Yay!!
Developer: ATi benefits more from DX12
nv fans: bull shit this is fake unfair cheating DX12 irrelevant etc. etc. Bunch of cry babies.
One thing people are quite hypocritical or ignorant of is the hardware inside 'comparable' cards. 480 should easily beat 1060, so it's no doubt it's getting better. Likewise, Fiji had 4096 shader cores and decent ACE units. That's why it also required water cooling from start.
In terms of hardware power AMD are still not using their hardware well at all. They should be a lot better than Nvidia.