With GPU architectures changing from being entirely graphics-focused and game rendering relying increasingly more on compute shaders, rather than classic vertex and pixel shaders, DirectX12 has gained ...

Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to support new DirectX graphical features as they release. To that end, the company revealed the DirectX 12 Agility SDK today. This toolkit enables ...

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Something to look forward to: Now that the hardware specifications of both major next-gen consoles have been revealed, Microsoft is taking the next step forward by announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate. In ...

Windows and Xbox games will receive a significant graphics and performance boost with Microsoft’s new DirectX 12, a set of application programming interfaces and tools used in PC games. Users can ...

Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, which it calls the next evolution of DirectX. The new DX12 Ultimate is the result of five years of continual investment in the DirectX 12 platform to keep ...

In only a few days we should all be getting some concrete information on what next-gen graphics and GPUs are all about. Nvidia is set to announce its "latest graphics innovations" on September 1, and ...

Lest there was any doubt, AMD announced in a blog post that its upcoming RDNA 2 graphics architecture "will provide full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate," which includes a variety of visual tools for ...

It’s evidently clear that AMD graphics cards perform brilliantly in Hitman across various performance tiers and demonstrate how poorly NVIDIA’s low-mid range products cope with the DirectX 12 API. For ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

One of the latest announcements from Fortnite developer Epic Games has confirmed that users with graphics cards that don’t have DirectX 11 will no longer be supported once the hit game launches into ...