{"id":325,"date":"2020-08-05T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:33:56","slug":"league-of-legends-directx-9-vs-directx-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/league-of-legends-directx-9-vs-directx-11\/","title":{"rendered":"League of Legends DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Performance Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mx_ardQbBsw\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb-1100x619.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/YTThumb.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>League of Legends DirectX9 vs DirectX11 FPS Performance Test Benchmark. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mx_ardQbBsw\">Watch the side by side here<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the release of League of Legends Patch 10.16 there is now official (beta) support for the Direct X11 Rendering backend for League of Legends (LoL). I have conducted a side by side comparison between the old rendering backend D3D9 (DirectX 9) and the new D3D11 (DirectX 11). If you want to enable DX11 in your own game you can <a href=\"https:\/\/na.leagueoflegends.com\/en-us\/news\/game-updates\/help-us-beta-test-dx11-support-for-league\/\">follow the instructions provided by Riot here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p><strong> Hardware<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>RTX 2080 8GB<\/li><li>i7 9700K @ 4.6Ghz<\/li><li>16GB DDR4 RAM<\/li><li>NVMe SSD<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Drivers\/OS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>NVIDIA 451.67<\/li><li>Windows 10 1909<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<p><strong> League of Legends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Medium, Shadows Disabled<\/li><li>240 FPS Framerate Limit (Recommend)<\/li><li>VSync Disabled<\/li><li>Patch 10.16<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>DX9 Average: 168.6<\/li><li>DX11 Average: 175.2<\/li><li>Performance Advantage FPS: 6.5+ DX11<\/li><li>Performance Gain Percent: 3.91%<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<h2>Recording Settings<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Note: The impact of OBS with these settings is as low as ~5FPS. When running the tests I had no additional software running other than OBS and League of Legends. In a real use case even if you don't record\/stream the performance impact should be similar to having Chrome\/Firefox open with a YouTube video or Discord ect. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>H.265 NVENC Encoder Max Quality preset, 2300kbps Bitrate, 1280x720<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dota 2 OpenGL vs Vulkan performance in Linux <a href=\"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/dota-2-opengl-vs-vulkan-linux\/\">https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/dota-2-opengl-vs-vulkan-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of League of Legends Patch 10.16 there is now official (beta) support for the Direct X11 Rendering backend for League of Legends (LoL). I have conducted a side by side comparison between the old rendering backend D3D9 (DirectX 9) and the new D3D11 (DirectX 11). If you want to enable DX11 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/league-of-legends-directx-9-vs-directx-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">League of Legends DirectX 9 vs DirectX 11 Performance Benchmark<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[456,607],"tags":[459,474,471,472,470,34,467,468,281,462,461,460,476,463,458,465,464,466,469,285,475,473],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthecrop.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}