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Async Compute is a big mess for nVidia right now. Latest trouble is Total War: Warhammer game. They released dx12 support for it and nVidia cards are losing 10fps+ while AMD cards are gaining 30%+ in performance. Also reason why Ark Survival Evolved is holding off dx12 release because of nVidia ...

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It's really difficult to draw conclusions from DX12 benchmarks at the moment.

The problem is that DX12 shifts most of the responsibility for architecture-specific optimizations (and avoiding pathological cases) from the driver to the application. So although you could draw the conclusion that Nvidia are struggling with DX12 due to their Total Warhammer performance, it's just as easily explained by Nvidias veteran DX11 driver team being better at tuning for Nvidia hardware than a game studio who partnered with AMD during development.

You mean the game that AMD is giving away for free with it's cards right now, to showcase it's cards, which has been optimized completely for AMD cards is outperforming nVidia cards? I'm shocked.

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