Microsoft's DirectX update could slash ray tracing memory by up to 90 percent
It works on current GPUs, no new hardware needed
Microsoft's shader stutter fix is now available for all AMD Radeon GPUs, Nvidia users have to wait
Radeon support now extends back to RDNA 1, but only for games played through the Xbox app
Microsoft's new tech cuts Forza Horizon 6's shader loading time from 90 seconds to four seconds
Advanced Shader Delivery moves compilation to the cloud, Nvidia RTX support coming later this year
PowerVR GPUs gain DirectX support as Imagination eyes PC market comeback
After years focused on mobile GPUs, Imagination is bringing PowerVR back to the PC
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel back Microsoft's plan to fix shader compilation stutter
Advanced Shader Delivery is coming to Windows and RTX graphics cards this year
Windows 11 "Xbox Mode" UI coming to all PCs in April
New features coming to DirectX, and DirectStorage is back
Next-gen Xbox sounds a lot like a PC with an Xbox UI and AMD's FSR Diamond
Microsoft and AMD outline AI-driven graphics tech, including FSR Diamond and major ray tracing gains
DirectX just made shader execution reordering official, boosting ray tracing performance in games
Big performance gains for Intel Arc Battlemage and likely next-gen AMD GPUs
Microsoft set to improve PC gaming with advanced shader delivery, up to 85% faster game starts
No more "compiling shaders"
Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage
Could this novel technique reshape the future of PC gaming?
Microsoft DirectX Raytracing 1.2 update promises to boost game performance significantly
New tools could help developers double path tracing performance
Microsoft DirectX embraces neural rendering for next-gen graphics
A cross-platform revolution in real-time PC graphics rendering?
Microsoft DirectSR aims to unify competing upscaling technologies under a single DX12 graphics library
Something to look forward to: Nvidia introduced its deep learning super sampling technology a few years ago, and other GPU makers soon followed with their own solutions for graphics upscaling. Now, Microsoft is planning to bring the three main competing upscaling algorithms under the same DirectX 12 roof.
New DirectX 12 SDK includes a feature to make the most out of modern GPUs
A novel API with a whole new paradigm for efficient game development
Intel Core Ultra NPUs receive a boost from Windows 11 DirectML preview
Microsoft's Machine Learning framework only supports Intel NPUs for now
The History of the Modern Graphics Processor
3D graphics transformed a somewhat dull PC industry into a spectacle of light and magic after generations of innovative endeavor. TechSpot's look at the history of the GPU goes from the early days of 3D, to game-changing hardware and beyond.
Imagination Technologies has a new GPU architecture with DirectX 11 support
Will PowerVR GPUs come back to the PC gaming market?
CrossOver 23 adds DirectX 12 support to macOS
CrossOver lets you run Windows apps and games seamlessly on macOS without Windows. CrossOver 23 has been updated with Wine 8.0.1 and initial support for DirectX 12 games, including Diablo IV.
Apple has a new porting toolkit to run DirectX 12 games on macOS
A feature that's more of an evaluation tool than a compatibility layer, though
CodeWeavers CrossOver 23 will bring DirectX 12 games to macOS - sort of
Running Windows-exclusive games on the Apple platform is challenging
Microsoft's new DirectX 12 Agility SDK opens the door to direct CPU VRAM access
The new features introduce multiple efficiencies and eliminates the need to keep two copies of data for component access
New Intel Arc drivers bring some massive improvements to DirectX 9 performance
A great sign of things to come from Intel
Intel is dropping native DirectX 9 support on Arc and Xe GPUs, going with emulation instead
Team Blue is passing the Direct3D 9 torch to a Direct3D 12 conversion layer
Forspoken demo offers a glimpse of Microsoft's DirectStorage in action
Developers believe one-second loading times will be possible in the near future
