#Doom opengl 4.3 amd software#

We've seen it a few times lately – the majority of comments on our DirectX 12 explicit multi-GPU and Vulkan benchmarks have been positive – but a stand-out few have explicitly scolded our efforts for testing new APIs on games which are known to be incomplete. Here's the thing: That comment in the headline has always been shortsighted, and will always be shortsighted. Public availability begins on May 27.įirst, the embedded video review and specs table: We expect to see that market fill-in over the next few months. The Founders Edition version of the GTX 1080 costs $700, though MSRP for AIBs starts at $600. We've got thermal throttle analysis that's new, too, and we're excited to show it. This nearing-10,000-word review lays-out the architecture from an SM level, talks asynchronous compute changes in Pascal / GTX 1080, provides a quick “how to” primer for overclocking the GTX 1080, and talks simultaneous multi-projection.

Our nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition review benchmarks the card's FPS performance, thermals, noise levels, and overclocking vs. It also means that LDA & AFR start getting pushed out as frames become more interdependent with post-FX, and so suddenly there are implications for multi-card configurations that point toward increasingly less optimization support going forward. As the industry pushes ever into DirectX 12 and Vulkan, compute preemption and dynamic task management become the gatekeepers to performance advancements in these new APIs. If the Founders Edition nomenclature confuses you, don't let it – it's a replacement for nVidia's old “Reference” card naming, as we described here.Īnticipation is high for GP104's improvements over Maxwell, particularly in the area of asynchronous compute and command queuing. That GPU lands on the GTX 1080 Founders Edition video card first, later to be disseminated through AIB partners with custom cooling or PCB solutions. NVidia's debut of consumer-grade Pascal architecture initializes with GP104, the first of its non-Accelerator cards to host the new 16nm FinFET process node from TSMC. You'd halfway expect this promulgation of multipliers and gains and reductions (but only where smaller is better) to mark the end-times for humankind surely, if some device were crafted to the standards by which it were announced, The Aliens would descend upon us.īut, every now and then, those bombastic announcements have something behind them – there's substance there, and potential for an adequately exciting piece of technology. We spoke about this with Chris Roberts a while back, who offered up this relevant quote:Īll the pyrotechnics in the world couldn't match the gasconade with which GPU & CPU vendors announce their new architectures. The new APIs are complex enough that developers must carefully implement them (Vulkan or Dx12) to best exploit the low-level access. The results in other Vulkan games, like the Talos Principle, will not necessarily mirror these. Note that, as with any game, Doom is indicative only of performance and scaling within Doom. This test is not meant to show if one video card is “better” than another (as our original Doom benchmark did), but is instead meant to show OpenGL → Vulkan scaling within a single card and architecture. The GTX 970 was thrown-in to see if there are noteworthy improvements for Vulkan when moving from Maxwell to Pascal.

Our test passes look only at the RX 480, GTX 1080, and GTX 970, so we're strictly looking at scalability on the new Polaris and Pascal architectures.

#Doom opengl 4.3 amd software#

Between the nVidia and AMD press events the last few months, we've seen id Software surface a few times to talk big about their Vulkan integration – but it's taken a while to finalize.Īs we're in the midst of GTX 1060 benchmarking and other ongoing hardware reviews, this article is being kept short. July 11 marks DOOM's introduction of the Vulkan API in addition to its existing OpenGL 4.3/4.5 programming interfaces. Benchmarking in Vulkan or Dx12 is still a bit of a pain in the NAS, but PresentMon makes it possible to conduct accurate FPS and frametime tests without reliance upon FRAPS.