Digital Foundry:
Our take? Well, we've been vocal about our need for AMD to up its game in terms of the efficiency of its driver when evidence emerged of it holding back the performance level of its excellent hardware on less capable processors. If there's one big positive here, it's that with DX12, the firm has jumped back into contention - performance is always king and this is a crucial step forward. With regards Nvidia's puzzling performance, we were hoping that looking at performance in context with our tools would help, but the results we were able to glean defy our best attempts at analysis. Quite frankly, the notion of DX12 running slower than DX11 in some scenarios isn't what we expected to see. Whether it's a game-specific issue, or a driver-related one, you can be sure that Nvidia's engineering team are digging deep into this benchmark now in an effort to figure out what's going on. We'll update with any news.
DSOGaming writes: "It appears that the first benchmarks for the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660Ti have been leaked online. These first tests come from Final Fantasy XV and Ashes of the Singularity and show this upcoming GPU performing as fast as the NVIDIA GTX 1070 and 25% faster than the GTX1060."
YouTube’s ‘Hardware Numb3rs‘ has shared some new interesting gaming benchmarks for AMD’s new Ryzen 7 CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 2700X. And according to the results, this new Ryzen CPU is 10% faster in various games than its previous gen version, the AMD Ryzen 7 1700.
concrete increase in real life power .. the gap with intel cpu are dead for half the price .
DSOGaming writes: "Stardock has released a brand new update for Ashes of the Singularity. According to the release notes, patch 2.65 comes with some Campaign improvements, features balance tweaks and map changes, and introduces Quality of Life for its multiplayer mode."
Impressive... now I can see why Wardell kept going on about DX12.
This could extend the lifespan of hardware the world over... my old laptop was close to being recycled, but it looks like she'll give me another year or two with DX12.
Lol look at that i3 so close to i7, but the price gap is huge, so for gaming a i5 will be perfect.
My old i7 2700k still has a bit of life left nice , will wait for next big gains from intel before upgrading.