The article states clearly that this system is not bound by draw calls, and thus will not be affected.

Any game engine render engineer will tell you that typical games OFTEN are bound by draw calls. Totally different beasts.

Why cant we all just agree that we dont know what the heck MS is working on. Unless you are an engineer at MS working on the upgrades you dont know anything. The time will come when they announce exactly what we can expect.

Keep trying, I know you have some better diversion articles out there. Nothing is killing my excitement for Sunset Overdrive.

On topic these are two completely different companies.

Looks like all games will just not be good enough to play then /s

who cares, theres too many of these articles. just let us know when you want to show us something lol. the xbox is already awesome. if dx12 helps, great. if it doesn't, whatever, give me some good looking/fun games and ill be happy

Dx12 is certainly a breath of fresh air, CPU are stagnant the past couple of years and it certainly help in the lack of improvement.

I don't think it will make major difference for the average rig tho, their processor are much much faster then what is inside a console and game don't need to lever the performance. It will help with 4-3 gpu system that are often cpu bound and with really low end apu system

Doesn't anyone remember the original arguments? Xbox fanbois were saying that ESRAM would make up for not having GDDR5...and it didn't. Then it was the DEVELOPERS fault for not fully taking advantage of the consoles "hidden power"! Now DX12 is going to SAVE THE DAY! Sorry guys, but there is no magic GPU fairy that is going to visit your console and somehow make it more powerful than the competition.

Poorly written...

Some say it will increase performance, others say it will only increase efficiency..

News flash... Both mean the same thing

Lmao to ppl who act like they know how this work and what it will do for x1 smh how many AAA games u made or I'll make it easier how many indie titles you developed??

DX12 is meh power up for xbone and its going to help the gpu.

Let's wait and see what it does before ripping it or praising it.

This article makes no sense.

If you make something more efficient, then more of the cpu cycles are available to be used elsewhere. So it has to improve performance because you can simply do more than you could before. Its common sense.

I don't understand why this article exists. According to his comments, dx12 will be useful for developers who are using middleware that make a lot of draw calls to the GPU... His particular middleware does not, so dx12 won't improve his products performance.

The performance gains may be measurable, but the actual measurements of that gain will be completely irrelevant as it pertains to graphics, resolution, and processing speed.

Hopefully this will shut some of the fanboys up. Many xb1 fanboys are thinking there going to get crysis 8 or what ever 60 fps 1080p when thats just not going to happen. The only benefit i see is making it easier for devs to port and such cause devs across the board say it takes x2 the time to code for xb1. But it will be funny when realty comes crashing down on those fanboys.

Can we just get a 50% reduction in DX12 hype please?

wow ms it would be easier to drop kinect & spend more money on a better gpu rather than trying to squeeze milk out of a rat.

you jelly ps4 boy???