spine
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DX12 will allow developers to utilize the CPU better and get more out of it. I think the confusion comes from taking existing games. If to take an existing game and do nothing to it except port it over to DX12, it's entirely possible and likely that CPU usage will go down. But that's not really what's going to happen, or if it does it will just be short term. It won't be long before developers leverage the benefits of DX12 by making more complex games, which brings CPU utilization right back up again.
Exactly what we saw with DX10 -> Performance gains from increased efficiency over-shadowed by increased complexity reducing overall performance (Crysis DX9 v 10).