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DX12: Ashes of Singularity benchmark

DX12: Ashes of Singularity benchmark

Oxide Games released a beta version of its upcoming RTS game Ashes of the Singularity, and now has send Guru3D this preview. Ashes is an RTS title powered by Oxide’s Nitrous game engine. The game’s look and feel somewhat resembles Total Annihilation, with large numbers of on-screen units simultaneously, and heavy action between ground and flying units. The game has been in development for several years, and it’s the debut title for the new Nitrous engine.
 

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Truth be told, we have been a little hesitant in deciding whether or not to use this benchmark in our test suite. There is a heap of discussion on the web that Nvidia's Maxwell GPU based graphics cards have a hard time with a DX12 feature level in hardware as there does not seem to be native support for Async Compute. This benchmark heavily uses that DX12 feature which AMDs GCN 1.1 / 1.2 based GPUs like the Fiji (Fury), Tonga (380) and Hawaii / Grenada (390) do support. The test run executes an identical flyby pass and tests various missions and unit match-ups. This benchmark doesn't pre-compute the results. Every segment of the game engine, including its AI, audio, physics, and firing solutions is executed in real-time, every single time. Making it a valid test. Also, not using would raise even more questions I guess, so from this point on wards we'll start to include results.

 

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We measure at high detail settings at a monitor resolution of 2560x1440 - You will notice that the benchmark results designates batches, CPU framerate and average of all frames. Batches can be seen as predetermined draw calls. “Normal” batches contain a relatively light number of draw calls, heavy batches are those frames that include a huge number of draw calls increasing scene complexity with loads of extra objects to render and move around. The idea here is that with a proper GPU you can fire off heavy batches with massive draw calls. And as we all know one of the major benefits of DirectX 12 is the ability increase more draw calls to the system with lower API overhead resulting into more complex scenes and better use of lower spec hardware.

As with all benchmarks, higher=better. I compared the Radeon R9 390X towards a GeForce GTX 980 Ti. The 390X should not even be close to this card, yet it is. Again, Nvidia does not support Async compute (native) while AMD and the aforementioned cards do. Hence the results should be good for AMD here. 

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