DX9 vx DX11

[Fenral]

Grabbed some screenshots to compare the skin shaders. For maximum effect, put these two images in separate tabs and toggle between them:
DX9
DX11

In the DX11 screenshot, you'll notice the shadowed areas are more saturated, and the brighter areas are just a touch brighter. It's a subtle effect, but just looks nicer.

[Pseudopsia]

I made a video to compare DX9 performance against DX11. https://youtu.be/R1BMZqSN5zk

Several spots in the benchmark my system drops below 60fps with Directx 9, however Directx 11 does not. When DX9 frame rate tanks the GPU usage tanks as well.


Min Frame Rates where DX9 dropped below 60 fps.
Time, DX9, DX11(DX9), DX11
2:07, 42, 95, 76
4:20, 43, 103, 95
4:56, 53, 117, 91
5:15, 50, 86, 72

System clocks: CPU is at 4.6 Ghz. GPU is at stock because overclock wasn't playing nice with shadowplay. I did set power limit to 110% to reduce throttling affecting scores.

CPU usage isn't reliable because I'm only displaying usage for 6 of the 12 logical cores. I messed up the audio so I replaced it; might fix it if I have time.

[Catwho]

Thanks for sharing that.

I noticed the major difference in the water reflections during the fishing scene, which matches what Yoshi P said before. For now, there won't be a dramatic improvement for most places, but we'll see a noticeable difference in water and floor reflections and shadows, because DX11 allows them to reflect multiple light sources and has better ambient occlusion for deeper shadows.

[MiniTofu]

lol, Nvidia has all the screenshots for comparison.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/art...ward-benchmark

Save your efforts

ie. click on those image on the article.
http://international.download.nvidia...parison-1.html

[Catwho]

Holy moly, I didn't see what happened to the grass and bushes before.

[MiniTofu]

Holy moly, I didn't see what happened to the grass and bushes before.

HBAO+
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/tech...lus/technology
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/03/05/hbao/

[Zenaku]

Maybe this would change your mind Benchmark you can't really tell you have to see in-game area to see the different.

Like in this pic <---

[Raist]

Noticed my load times on the laptop were better in dx11 mode vs comparable quality levels in dx9 modes.

The trade off though is a very slight drop in frame rate--but then again there seems to be more definition in general so it is an acceptable trade-off I guess.

[Elazu]

Dx11 looks noticably better.

[Shori]

I didnt notice much difference at first - some improvements on frame rate in crowded scenes actually which may sound odd.
However I then fiddled with the settings and notices that ambient occlusion was not set to DX11 High-Quality - re-ran after this and it only took my score down by 200 but made quite the difference visually. The coloured lighting from moving objects and spells was beautiful against the better reflections from materials such as stone floor, and the overall temparture of the lighting was more real for the scene. Hope thats making some sense.