Introduction

Welcome back to our series of articles covering the DX12-powered Ashes of the Singularity from developer Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. In our first article, we covered what Ashes of the Singularity is, and the benefits of DX12.

I was excited going into the testing of AotS thanks to its support of DirectX 12's explicit multi-GPU support, where I can run two GPUs in a multi-GPU array - no matter if they're mismatched brands, or even competing architectures from AMD and NVIDIA. In this article, we're going to look at testing the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X together (not against!) the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X in Ashes of the Singularity, thanks to DX12.

What You Need to Know

What you need to know about DX12 we covered in our original article 'DX12 Benchmarked - Ashes of the Singularity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs'. In this article, we tested a slew of cards, including AMD's Radeon R9 390X, R9 Fury, and R9 Fury X. We also tested NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 Ti and Titan X.

We tested our AMD and NVIDIA video cards at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160 and 3440x1440 - covering all of the bases. While I was testing out all of the cards individually, all I wanted to do was test multi-GPUs - mixing an AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X. Well, it was super fun - with results that didn't really surprise me. I expected much more, and you'll see these results on the next page.