Let's start by saying that most of these Ashes of the Singularity benchmarks can easily be put into the "theoretical" column. While I am sure someone somewhere will email me an exception, these high end Fury X and 980 Ti video cards being paired with a 1.2GHz processor is not likely. Conversely, a GTX 670 or Radeon 7970 being paired with a $1000+ Intel Core i7-5960X for gaming is a bit far fetched as well, albeit much more likely to be found in the wild I would think.

One thing that is interesting in all of these benchmarks over the last couple of weeks is a trend that "favors" AMD overall and DX12. While much of the headlines have been about how NVIDIA is lacking at DX12 performance, if you look at the "low end" benchmarks where the benchmark is CPU limited, NVIDIA's cards actually give a much better DX11 experience. Even the lowly GTX 670 gives a 39.4% performance increase at over the Radeon 7970 at LOW settings with the 1.2GHz CPU under DX11. Moving to DX12 on that same comparison, we see the two systems pull within 2 frames per second of each other. These results surely hold up the arguments that NVIDIA's GPU pipeline is much more in tune with handling DX11 instructions, and AMD's is much more svelte and certainly shorter when it comes to DX12.