DX11 versus DX12 - CPU Core scaling

DirectX 11 versus 12

We quickly had a peek at the perf differences between DX11 and 12, we could not see much difference between the two modes. We default to DX12 in all benchmarks BTW. 

We had an interesting bump in perf at Ultra HD for DX11, likely a bit of an anomaly. Once we have some more time we'll measure Radeon DX11/DX12 performance as well.

CPU Core Scaling

You are wondering, what would be the effect of a four-core versus an eight-core processor for this the game? Well, I have a quick chart I would like to show you, the results below are based on default clock frequencies. We apply the very same image quality settings as used throughout this article, Ultra. The proc used is the Core i9 9900K and if there is any graphics card CPU limited, it would be the Geforce RTX 2080 Ti.

As you can see, any proc starting at four cores will do fine.