News Nixxes warns of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DX12 support delay

Is there any difference in the visuals between DX11 and 12? Or is better performance the 'only' thing DX12 offers?

 

I would say no to that. Games don't look any better or worse on DX12 tbh.

 

Multi adaptor support - like using an AMD *AND* an Nvidia card in a sort of hybrid SLI/Crossfire mode is DX12 exclusive, AFAIK... though how well that will work, considering how much of a P.I.T.A. both SLI and Crossfire can be with some games, is another thing altogether.

 

Yeah, that's my conclusion at the moment. DX12 offers performance improvement but not shiny new graphics features.

 

In many cases, DX11 doesn't have that many visual advantages over DX10 either. I think DX10 had some visual improvements over DX9, but each generation since 9 has been more focused on performance improvements and adding more detail without increasing workload. So in other words, DX9 should theoretically be able to offer the same visuals as a DX12 title, but the performance would be abysmal, even on the same hardware.

Anyway, the significant advantages of DX12 was to allow for mis-matched multi-GPU rendering, and adopting the low CPU overhead that Vulkan and Mantle offer.