APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. The name DirectX was coined as a shorthand...
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DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature introduced in Microsoft's DirectX 12 that implements ray tracing, for video graphic rendering. DXR was released with...
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DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag) is a diagnostics tool used to test DirectX functionality and troubleshoot video- or sound-related hardware problems....
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Direct3D (redirect from DirectX 9.3)
application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications...
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Corporation. 2010-12-02. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-02. "INTRODUCING 3DMARK TIME SPY DIRECTX 12 BENCHMARK TEST"...
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High-Level Shader Language (redirect from DirectX Intermediate Language)
DirectX 12 (11_0+) with WDDM 2.1 Shader Model 6.1 — GCN 1+, Kepler+, DirectX 12 (11_0+) with WDDM 2.3 Shader Model 6.2 — GCN 1+, Kepler+, DirectX 12 (11_0+)...
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Intel Arc (section DirectX 9 compatibility)
generation, Arc only includes direct hardware support for the DirectX 11 & 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs, with the older DirectX 9 & 10 and OpenGL APIs being...
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using DirectX 12, Vulkan and OpenGL extensions on Windows and Linux platforms. Windows 10 October 2018 update includes the public release of DirectX Raytracing...
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Cg (programming language) (category DirectX)
tessellation shaders (hull and domain). The latter is present in Cg 3.1. DirectX 12 (Shader Model 6.3) introduced ray tracing shaders (ray generation, intersection...
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AMD CrossFire (redirect from CrossFire Direct Memory Access)
company continues to develop and support the technology for DirectX 11 applications. For DirectX 12 applications, AMD has the mGPU (also known as multi-GPU)...
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2018. "DirectX 12 Ultimate Game Ready Driver Released; Also Includes Support for 9 New G-SYNC Compatible Gaming Monitors". "Announcing DirectX 12 Ultimate"...
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that allowed multiple CPU cores to simultaneously access the GPU such as DirectX 12 and Mantle. The studio's first release of its Nitrous technology came...
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DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be...
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technology launching in Q1 2024 which is compatible with all DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games, however it runs on RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs. AFMF uses optical...
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Meta-commands, adding preview support for DirectML, a high-performance, hardware-accelerated DirectX 12 library for machine learning. With Windows 10...
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public development was suspended and in 2019 completely discontinued, as DirectX 12 and the Mantle-derived Vulkan rose in popularity. The draw call improvements...
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Windows 10 (redirect from Windows 10.x)
no longer bundled. Windows 10 includes DirectX 12, alongside WDDM 2.0. Unveiled March 2014 at GDC, DirectX 12 aims to provide "console-level efficiency"...
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64-bit wine. In early June 2023, CodeWeavers announced early stages of DirectX 12 support on macOS would be available in CrossOver 23. At WWDC 2023, Apple...
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Shading language (redirect from DirectX Shader Assembly Language)
PSSL is said to be largely compatible with the HLSL shader language from DirectX 12, but with additional features for the PS4 and PS5 platforms. Apple has...
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GeForce 700 series (section Microsoft DirectX support)
GPUs of the GeForce 700 series fully support DirectX 11.0. All GeForce 700 series card also support DirectX 12.0 with feature level 11_0. Dynamic parallelism...
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systems, serious games and visualization. It supports OpenGL 4, Vulkan and DirectX 12. UNIGINE Engine is a core technology for a lineup of benchmarks (CPU,...
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can be compared to low-level APIs on other platforms such as Vulkan and DirectX 12. Metal is an object-oriented API that can be invoked using the Swift,...
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integrated into Windows 11; the latter requiring a graphics card supporting DirectX 12 and an NVMe solid-state drive. A redesigned user interface is present...
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Features new to Windows 10 (section DirectX 12)
notifications and licensing. Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 alongside WDDM 2.0. Unveiled March 2014 at GDC, DirectX 12 aims to provide "console-level efficiency"...
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(Windows)". MSDN. Retrieved 2015-09-19. Moreton, Henry (March 20, 2014). "DirectX 12: A Major Stride for Gaming". Nvidia. Retrieved 2015-09-19. "Nvidia GPUDirect"...
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which can be used to implement other atomic functions. Maxwell supports DirectX 12. Nvidia has announced that the company skipped the GeForce 800 series...
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GeForce 900 series (redirect from GTX Titan X)
GCN Better Prepared for DirectX 12". TechPowerUp. August 31, 2015. Hilbert Hagedoorn (June 24, 2015). "AMD Radeon R9 Fury X review". Guru3D.com. "[Various]...
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implementation), Intel VT-x, Intel VT-d, AES-NI, Smart Cache, Intel Wireless Display, and configurable TDP (cTDP) down GPU supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4 and Intel...
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was released on Windows on March 31, 2016. Because of the game's early DirectX 12 support and extensive use of parallel computation, it is commonly used...
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