Xbox One Games' Performance, Reduces CPU Utilization By 50%

DX 12 Will Improve Xbox One Games’ Performance, Reduces CPU Utilization By 50%

Update 2: Microsoft has confirmed that it will release DX 12 in Holiday 2015. There is no update on a Windows 7 support although they will consider it. As mentioned below, DX 12 will support mobiles but with better power efficiency. This means batteries won’t drain out. DX 12 will also support multiple GPUs as they have ‘ways’ to target each one of them.

Update: An interesting bit of information has popped out of the conference. DX12 can enhance any modern graphics chip. When compared to previous iterations, this a big change in the way DX talks to the GPU. In short this will improve performance across the board for Xbox One games.

In the on going Microsoft’s presentation for DX 12, it was announced that DX 12 will improve performance of game’s on the Xbox One. DX 12 features a lower level of abstraction and new rendering features. In addition, it also addresses state and rendering overhead along with resource management improvements.

In DX 11 most of the work was done by a single core, but in DX 12 overall CPU utilization is down 50% and the workload is more spread out across all cores. Furthermore DX 12 may allow applications to control graphics memory in an efficient manner. Rendering overhead includes new command lists for for multi-thread scale-ability along with GPU indexing with large array of resources.

DX 12 features an API of a lower level with less API and driver tracking universally. This is to improve predictability. Further more on the GPU end, DX 12 will enable better better collision and culling.

Recently we did an article on what advantages DX 12 could bring to Xbox One. You can read that article here. DX 12 will come to mobiles and all Microsoft platforms. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

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isn't there already a DX12 thread

Microsoft may have $70 billion in the bank, but in terms of money-to-utility, it's more like $15 million in the bank. $6 billion in APU R&D and they get that bastardized disaster known as the Xbone.

SONY's $15 million is worth $150 billion in Microsoft's world.

More than 1

and this has what to do with DX12?

Drivers can only do so much to crutch underpowered hardware. Don't be expecting a GTX 780ti to be getting installed to the Xbox One. It's also pretty disappointing to hear that this won't be coming for almost 2 years.

Still here?

Mods are slow on the banhammer

This is not DX12, its boosts and about Xbox One, not about PC

That Microsoft is highly inefficient. Don't expect too much from DX12.

no where in there does it say that it will reduce xbox one cpu overhead by 50. that goes for dx12 period and no wehre does it say xbone is getting full dx12

heh last time i check microsoft still printing $20 billion every year

You're trying to relate their R&D funding to the efficiency of software?

As I hermit with a ultra high end rig even I'm not expecting big things for DX12....

On topic...well done

I figured his name is a dead give away for trolling. He should just be ignored.

This is why I chose the XOne. Its the console that'll keep on giving.

Whereas you've already got as good as your gonna get with the PS4. AA after AA, no AAA in sight LOL

Looks like DX12 will be a game changer for The One............can't wait for devs to take advantage.

dat secret sauce

While there have been a lot of talk recently about DX12 , PS4 is proving that it's more capable with Infamous:SS.

At least we know now that the whole mythical stacked GPU and dual layered APU thing was officially bogus.

#XB1M13, also extremely cute of you to think that the PS4 won't improve. I'd like to buy you a puppy.

2016 will definitely be the time to pick up an Xbone, for sure. Can't wait to see the improvements in a couple of years.

don't be so jelly

Almost 2 years? Yeah nothing to see here, 2 years is a long way from now.

Dat secret sauce, dat 12GB ram, dat discreet gpu, dat cloud, dat kinect, dat esram, dat dx12.

ROFL that secret sauce, lems will cling to anything these days.

There has been a lot of previous directx releases, and guess what they actually do? they make the game look a LITTLE better.

No it won't.... DX12 will hardly be used by Developers as they'll have there own tools which will more then likely give a lower access to the hardware then DX12 will give them.

DX12 was built with PC in mind and Xbone as an after thought...

Pretty sure the 50% improvement applies for PC mostly.

XO already uses a low level API, it must be using the CPUs more efficiently than a lot of DX11 PC games.

More foolish statements. MSoft has a One philosophy as a product set. The Xbox One, One Drive, and more to come............smh.

SO why was the bone even released in 2013 if its coming in ages? Was it released to play last gens at 50% higher res (if even that lol)? What is the point of the Bone existence? I think this is brainwashing DC done so Xbone owners have hope and it looks like its working flawlessly on dumb people. In two years if they don't deliver (THE CLOUD!! sounds like a deja vu?) most people will forget what was promised and by that time will already own a bone if they wanted it, MS wins in that case so gg for MS and lol at dumb brand followers. Bone is weak and weak it stays. Also wouldn't be surprised if only 25%-30% of DX12 features were available to the bone instead of 100% pc is getting.

You won't have to wait that long. Quatum Break is going to blow doors off graphically and story wise.

dat 7790 with dat 8GB DDR3. Cool if they can get more effects but resolution will forever be 720-900p

over a year and half away... thats nice

Exactly.

Consoles already have a low level API which is why Mantle didn't come to consoles. There would be no significant gains.

For the Xbone's sake, I hope that's true. Only game I'm looking forward to hearing about. It has to do battle with Uncharted, The Order and most likely a more polished Drive Club, amongst a slew of new announcements.

no its not.....

Graphically it is already the best looking game I have seen so far on consoles and Remedy has a track record of making great stories. I am comfortable with my assumption.

@FreedomFreeLife:

So, basically, don't buy a Xbox One until Christmas 2015....?

By 2015/16, PC GPUs pushing over 4 TFLOPS will be selling for like $150 dollars...if THAT.

And oh yea, the PS4 will have even more mature drives and Mantle-like support from AMD.

I don't think MS can wait that long. They need to get things moving now.

your reasoning is illogical. Typical sign of a fan boy.

This really isn't for the One. The demo was more to show that low-level access that has been standard on consoles (like the One) will now be coming to PC.

This is a direct response to AMD's Mantle, and it's timing just confirms that. One might see some small improvements from DX12 features, but "small" is the key word here. Can only do so much with less transistors, memory speed and cores.

PS4 is still the world's most powerful video game console to have ever been created in the history of video games.

Just a thought, but would this actually benefit anyone. I wouldnt think that developers would take advantage of this merely because not all systems would be able to have this update as not all consoles connect to the internet and get updates. Then the early adopters would be buying games which dont run optimally on their systems as it was devolped with dx12 in mind?

Cool? I guess. I'm playing games on it NOW, and damn its fun!

please show me some gameplay for it...because there is nothing longer then 2 seconds

Nvidia Titan Black is also dropping frames during DX 12 F5 demo.

You mean don´t buy PS4?

Xbox One has right now better games while PS4 has nothing

Mantle... DX12... Call it what you will, the only time its useful is if you are CPU bottlenecked. For PC gamers who have overclocked i5's and i7's this is all useless to them.

@ronvalencia said:

@arkephonic said:

Drivers can only do so much to crutch underpowered hardware. Don't be expecting a GTX 780ti to be getting installed to the Xbox One. It's also pretty disappointing to hear that this won't be coming for almost 2 years.

Nvidia Titan Black is also dropping frames during DX 12 F5 demo.

holy shit LOL dat DX12

The ONE will be getting DX12 sooner than holiday 2015. In the conference they already said there will be early access available.

Since everything is in place for DX12 on THE ONE, look for it first there.

I think a DX12 update of Forza 5 will be the first taste we get. Say "4 months"??????