Comments on: DirectX 12 Adds 20% GPU Boost To The Xbox One

By: kristijanEX

kristijanEX — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:38:00 +0000

Lol Phil Spencer already said before DirectX 12 won’t make the XB1 more powerful, it will make the assets in the XB1 more accessible. You poor fools who believe this.

Foolishness Xbox community foolishness.

By: Ink

Ink — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:22:00 +0000

Guess they don’t approve comments very fast on this site

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:14:00 +0000

In reply to d0x360. Microsoft spent 3 Billion Dollars on their customized hardware. their hardware is beyond proper compared to the ps4's.

By: Tom Krager

Tom Krager — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:14:00 +0000

In reply to mj. you must have the eyes of a mole

By: mj

mj — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:54:00 +0000

In reply to Tom Krager. You must be blind because the Xbox One and ps4 games are nearly identical, impossible to tell the difference even when next to each other. Stop acting like it's a SNES vs a NES

By: Tom Krager

Tom Krager — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:46:00 +0000

if xbox games start pushing out the same graphics as ps4 i’ll maybe pick one up . . . thing is, I would need to get a trade in for my old 360 or something. Honestly I cant see buying one full price sense I already own a ps4.

By: HyperionLight

HyperionLight — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:26:00 +0000

In reply to d0x360.

Agreed.

And another point here is that according to Spencer and his tweet they knew what dx12 was going to do when they were “building” the x1.

Which isn’t surprising at all, but there is a very high probability that they used the knowledge regarding what dx12 will do and what it needs to and built the x1
around it.

Of course the console had to be sold at a (somewhat) reasonable price so there were limits to what they could put into it (I do think it was released prematurely tough), but none the less they had to make it “powerful” enough to last for those 10 years they initially claimed.

With the ps4 it’s quite the different situation.

Sony unlike Microsoft doesn’t have an entire department working on APIs, let alone something on the level of dx12.

Vulcan is still a 3rd party solution, so as much of a boost the ps4 could get, in the end the console wasn’t built around that API and what it could do – even looking at the cooling solutions (you mentioning OCing the console) you can notice that the ps4 and the x1 are quite different.

By: Ink

Ink — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:22:00 +0000

In reply to jayflow. Yeah, saw that too. From what I understand, there was in interruption of the stream which lead to some confusion. There are still some sites that are reporting that Phil S. said that the XB1 would get that 20% GPU boost

By: jayflow

jayflow — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:01:00 +0000

In reply to shinitaru.

Yep. Says nothing about the XB1 on Xbox Wire either. I think he was talking about PC. So where is everyone getting that he was talking about XB1?

http://news.xbox.com/2015/03/xbox-gdc-2015?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

By: Hyper/Real

Hyper/Real — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 02:36:00 +0000

In reply to Cypher-Unknown.

That’s what these people don’t seem to understand. Even if DX12 turned out to be every Xbox fanboy’s wet dream, radically improving the XB1 (big if), it’s only software. There is nothing that MS can make that can’t be replicated and improved upon by the greatest minds in the industry, which all contribute to OpenGL, as they always have.

DX has always gotten the most attention because a multi-billion dollar corporation and their massive PR engines is promoting it, but OpenGL has always been the better standard which even DX owes it’s existence to.