

28nm GPU performance will remain extremely relevant for most of the market for a good while yet. While that’s less valuable now with Pascal on the market, the 10 are both still shipping in limited quantities.

Here you can see GPU usage drops, in DX11 it is even worse than in DX12. Still, this update is good news for AMD owners, who should be able to expect at least moderate performance improvements across the board - and it puts AMD back in the pole position against the GTX 980 Ti in 1440p and 4K in DX12. from now on (Rise of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Hitman. Cards like the RX 480 and R9 380 showed only a minimal performance difference between having asynchronous compute enabled versus disabled, while the R9 Nano still picked up a substantial speed boost (44 FPS with async disabled versus 50 enabled). When we tested the RX 480 last week, we benchmarked the GPU in Ashes of the Singularity with async compute enabled and disabled to gauge the impact of the feature. These types of improvements are going to be game and GPU-dependent and they don’t always scale evenly between different GPUs from the same developer.
