{"id":98530,"date":"2016-07-18T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98530"},"modified":"2016-07-18T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:54:51","slug":"why-amd-graphics-cards-will-be-more-powerful-in-newer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/98530-why-amd-graphics-cards-will-be-more-powerful-in-newer-games","title":{"rendered":"Why AMD graphics cards will be more powerful in newer games"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD’s graphics cards have historically provided slightly less efficient performance than Nvidia’s GPU solutions, especially in games that are built on Nvidia’s proprietary technology, GameWorks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As a result, Nvidia graphics cards have enjoy a better power-to-performance ratio than AMD cards in DirectX 11 games.<\/p>\n

However, things are changing with the proliferation of DirectX 12 and its competitor, Vulkan.<\/p>\n

Vulkan and DirectX 12<\/h3>\n

An API (Application Programming Interface)<\/strong> is a set of tools that allows developers to easily build software and applications according to a uniform set of rules. The interface essentially provides the \u2018building blocks\u2019 for developers to create\u00a0their software.<\/p>\n

Vulkan and DirectX 12 are both low-level APIs geared at modern gaming needs. Vulkan is an open-source API developed by Kronos and based on AMD’s Mantle code, while DirectX 12 is a closed API owned by Microsoft and only compatible with Windows.<\/p>\n

Although Vulkan is still fairly new, it is quickly demonstrating the advantages of open-source development, as the API is compatible with a great amount of platforms – such as\u00a0Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, and Windows.<\/p>\n

This makes porting games between platforms much easier and minimizes performance loss.<\/p>\n

Vulkan has only been implemented in a few games so far, one of which is Bethesda’s DOOM reboot.<\/p>\n

AMD Improvements<\/h3>\n

Vulkan has recently been implemented in mainstream games, but it is already making a significant difference in optimisation.<\/p>\n

Whereas AMD graphics cards were previously limited in the OpenGL-powered DOOM, activating Vulkan allows them to reach their full potential – increasing performance by up to 66% on the Radeon Fury X<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although Nvidia cards also see a performance increase using the Vulkan API, it is not nearly as significant – with some older cards showing no difference at all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0set of benchmarks published by ComputerBase.de<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0outline the performance difference offered by Vulkan, showing that AMD Radeon graphics cards enjoy a massive boost to performance<\/strong>, and are set to\u00a0continue to use Vulkan to implement their asynchronous compute effectively.<\/p>\n

Check out the benchmarks below:<\/p>\n

\"Doom<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DOOM<\/a><\/p>\n

\"DOOM<\/a><\/p>\n

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The future is looking bright for gamers, thanks to Vulkan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":92041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[1051,14210,20372,883,20368,20370,45,8074,13978,1486,19029,18825],"class_list":["post-98530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-benchmarks","tag-diurectx","tag-doom","tag-improvement","tag-measurement","tag-nvidia","tag-opengl","tag-performance","tag-radeon","tag-rx-480","tag-vulkan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}