ASUS Strix Radeon R9 Fury And The State Of DirectX 12 Performance
Total War: WARHAMMER, Thoughts and Conclusion
Published by SEGA and developed by Creative Assembly, Total War: WARHAMMER is a top-down turn-based strategy game set in the fantasy world of WARHAMMER. It features wide-scale battles in large open settings, similar to Ashes of The Singularity, with hundreds of units on screen at a single time.
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Total War: WARHAMMER shows nice performance improvements across the board as a result of the heavier inter-CPU/GPU workload rendering so many combat AI units in a scene. Our ASUS STRIX Radeon R9 Fury sees a full 10% boost in performance under the new API.
We focused solely on performance here but DirectX 12 also offers resources for developers to make optimizations and enhancements to lighting, textures and other visual features. That said the titles tested here, in their current versions, do not yield any significant visual enhancements over their DX11 counterparts.
More efficient use of resources, with the potential for increased performance and better visual fidelity are some of the promises of DirectX 12. Judging from these tests we aren't there quite yet but the future for DirectX 12 looks bright.