It's been over 18 months since we first visited the topic of DirectX 12 and what features and benefits it would bring to modern gaming. Much has happened since. Windows 10's launch and the debut of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. As Microsoft incorporates new features and capabilities into ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Nvidia is releasing a new driver update today that will support Microsoft’s ...

GDC 2014 - Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 with some of its closest partners, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm, showing off the new DirectX gaming API at the 2014 Game Developers Conference in San ...

Surprising new details regarding how Microsoft's new DirectX 12 API will work and the impactful implications for PC users and builders have been uncovered by Tom's Hardware US. Firstly it is thought ...

The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1, the first big revision of its vendor-neutral, cross-platform GPU API. The new revision standardizes a handful of features that were previously offered as ...

This should not come as much of a surprise to most people in the loop, but Nvidia’s next generation GPU architecture codenamed Maxwell does not support DirectX Next aka DirectX 12. The reason is ...

If all goes to plan, Microsoft’s next-gen API will usher in a new standard for visuals and performance across a whole range of devices, from high-end PCs, to modest laptops, to even the Xbox One. But ...

AMD has announced a collaboration with Oxide Games and Stardock to bring the very best DirectX 12 performance to Ashes of the Singularity. DirectX 12 is promising blistering new levels of efficiency ...

The ranks of DirectX 12-compatible games continue to grow. Gears of War 4, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Forza Horizon 3 all released in recent months with support for Microsoft’s next-gen graphics ...

Two applications that never seem to have quite enough processing power are high-end multimedia editing, and gaming. In Windows, one of the key components of graphics processing in gaming is DirectX ...

It's been over 18 months since we first visited the topic of DirectX 12 and what features and benefits it would bring to modern gaming. Much has happened since. Windows 10's launch and the debut of ...