DIRECTX

PERFORMANCE UPDATE

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS Continue To Optimize DirectX11

Work within the industry standard: Microsoft DirectX

Dramatically enhanced efficiency of DirectX 11 driver

Improved driver will be publicly released on April 2, 2014 Download available through GeForce Experience or via NVIDIA.com and GeForce.com

GEFORCE + DX11 16% FASTER SYNTHETIC GAME PERFORMANCE

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0.50

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1.50

2.00

2.50

R9 290xDX11

R9 290xMantle

GTX 780Ti335.23

GTX 780Ti337.50

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Star Swarm

1920x1080, Extreme Setting - Intel Core i7 3960K, 8gb, Win8.1 x64

GEFORCE + DX11 12% FASTER ACTUAL GAME PERFORMANCE

0.90

0.95

1.00

1.05

1.10

1.15

1.20

R9 290xDX11

R9 290xMantle

GTX 780Ti335.23

GTX 780Ti337.50

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Battlefield 4

1920x1080, Ultra Setting - Intel Core i7 3960K, 8gb, Win8.1 x64

GEFORCE + DX11 7% FASTER ACTUAL GAME PERFORMANCE

0.90

0.95

1.00

1.05

1.10

1.15

1.20

R9 290xDX11

R9 290xMantle

GTX 780Ti335.23

GTX 780Ti337.50

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FPS)

Thief

1920x1080, High Setting - Intel Core i7 3960K, 8gb, Win8.1 x64

DOMINANT PERFORMANCE MULTI-GPU SCALING

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35%

45%

R9 290xDX11

R9 290xMantle

GTX 780Ti335.23

GTX 780Ti337.50

Thief

1920x1080, High Setting - Intel Core i7 3960K, 8gb, Win8.1 x64

DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS 335.23 VS. 337.50

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CoD: Black Ops II Sleeping Dogs Alien vs. Predator Total War: Rome 2 Sniper Elite v2

GeForce GTX 780Ti SLI, Intel Core i7 3960K, 8gb, Win8.1 x64

“Core i3 through i7 owners can hope to see a 5% boost (a few fps) with Mantle but that's not enough to recommend it over the more mature DirectX 11 API for now.” DIRECTX

STAYING FOCUSED

Improve Performance Across Wide Range of Titles

“If these benchmarks are true, and it looks like they are, it reveals why Nvidia didn’t bother creating a rival API…”

DIRECTX STAYING FOCUSED

Improve Performance Across Wide Range of Titles

Drivers ready day game launches

“Thief and Battlefield 4's Mantle-enabled

drivers each appeared after the normal

versions of the games launched.”

MAJOR DIRECTX TITLES IN 2014

Result of 4 Years of Collaboration Between Microsoft and NVIDIA

Increased CPU/GPU Efficiency Through Better Memory Management and Scheduling

Get Developers Closer “To the Metal”

INTRODUCING DIRECTX 12 FASTEST API GETS EVEN FASTER

Maxwell

Kepler

Fermi

GEFORCE GPUS SUPPORTING DX12

TOTAL DISCRETE GPU INSTALL BASE

78% DirectX 11

21% DirectX 10

1% DirectX 9

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

TOTAL DISCRETE GPU INSTALL BASE

78% DirectX 11

21% DirectX 10

1% DirectX 9

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

11% Mantle

DX11 GPU SUPPORT FOR DX12

GPU DirectX 11

1% DirectX 9

79% Support DirectX 12

21% DirectX 10

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

DX12 OVER 5X LARGER AT LAUNCH

GPU DirectX 11

1% DirectX 9

79% Support DirectX 12

21% DirectX 10

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

14% Support Mantle

DX12 SUPPORT BY VENDOR

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

40% Support DirectX 12

100% Support DirectX 12

AMD DirectX 11 GPUs

GeForce DirectX 11 GPUs

DX12 SUPPORT BY VENDOR

*Data from Steam Hardware Survey

100% Support DirectX 12

AMD DirectX 11 GPUs

GeForce DirectX 11 GPUs

40% Support DirectX 12

Support Mantle

THE INVESTMENT PAYS OFF

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Henry Moreton - NVIDIA Graphics Expert

Our work with Microsoft on DirectX 12 began more than four years ago with discussions about reducing resource overhead.

For the past year, NVIDIA has been working closely with the DirectX

team to deliver a working design and implementation of DX12 at GDC.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/directx-12/

FIRST DX12 GAME DEMO SHOWN ON

GEFORCE GTX TITAN BLACK

EPIC SUPPORT FOR DX12

“Epic will be working closely with NVIDIA and Microsoft to create a world-class implementation of DX12 in UE4. DX12 is a great step forward, exposing low-level hardware functionality through an industry-standard API to give developers more control and efficiency than ever before.”

Tim Sweeney

Founder, CEO and Technical Director of Epic Games

WHY DIRECTX IS THE API OF CHOICE The Best Choice Today

Highest Performance

Largest Install-Base

Universal Performance Tweaks

Day 1 Driver Availability

DirectX 11

WHY DIRECTX IS THE API OF CHOICE The Best Choice for Tomorrow

Highest Performance

Largest Install-Base

Universal Performance Tweaks

Day 1 Driver Availability

DirectX 11 DirectX 12

Builds off of DirectX 11

Even Faster Performance