There’s a patch available on Steam with which DirectX 12 support will be added to ROTTR and this will optimize your game perfomance! Though, as “being one of the first game titles out there using DirectX 12 there are still many more optimizations to make and DirectX 11 is available for the most predictable and proven experience.” Nevertheless, you should head over to Steam and check out the DirectX 12 patch for yourself.
“In the patch released today on Steam – and coming soon to the Windows 10 Store – we will be adding DirectX 12 support to Rise of the Tomb Raider.” Read the full article on the official Tomb Raider Tumblr and see some visual examples of how the CPU work is allocated.