Users will see games that not only provide high-quality texture but also life-like lighting.
With DirectX 12 ultimate you can expect much more immersive games to come for Windows. Not only will your games run smoother, but you will also be able to enjoy the overall in-game experience. All of this will help increase the texture quality of the game while utilizing lesser resources.
You will also be seeing features like Sampler feedback with the latest DirectX for Windows 11, i.e., DirectX 12 ultimate.
It will come with DirectX Ray Tracing 1.1. Moreover, this will provide better frame rates and more fidelity while playing games. It has variable-rate shading, which means the GPU can utilize all of its resources, to render the in-focus objects more effectively.
If you want the best, don’t rely on your current GPU.DirectX 12 Ultimate is an essential upgrade that brings more features into Windows and the Xbox Series X. An actual DX12-based hardware graphics card will be the best way to take advantage of the new DX12 API. It was more feature-based than performance-based.ĭirectX 12 will allow all CPU cores to talk with the GPU at the same time, eliminating major bottlenecks and increasing performance (along with new features of its own). Microsoft already admitted that DX11, now 6 years old, is not good with multi-threading (CPU and GPU onlt talk 1 core at a time) and has other poorly implemented instructions.
There may be future support for Windows 7 and 8/8.1, but not yet. How do I tell what version of DirectX I am running?ĭX12 requires Windows 10. The 400/500 series cards are already becoming obsolete, even though some are quite powerful.įor the time being, consider a new AMD graphics card. One rumor is that “early 2016” is when NVidia will add support. No “support.” Not even a statement from NVidia about what has happened or when things will change. Months ago, NVidia claimed the “support” would come later in the year. Geforce 400 and 500 series cards (even low end 600 series) DO NOT support DX12. Solid Tip: Don’t believe NVidia’s website. Even worse, customers are being lied to, with visitors going to Nvidia’s own website and being told that, for example, a GTX 480 (a card that I currently use) is a DirectX 12 “supported” card. With top-tier titles like Star Wars: Battlefront and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided about to come out, Nvidia users have been left in the dark and left behind.
Now, AMD is claiming that they are partnering with the majority of game developers who are bringing DirectX 12 games in 2016.
Months ago, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel released new drivers for their GPUs that support Windows 10 and DirectX 12. NVidia fired back saying that AMDs flagship card, the Fury X, is also missing a number of DX12 features. NVidia claims that the Kepler (600 and 700 series) and Maxwell (750 and 900 series) already “support” DirectX 12, but competitor AMD questions even the newer Maxwell cards as being “not able to perform asynchronous compute without heavy reliance on slow context switching.” That’s a complicated way of saying the NVidia hardware doesn’t support a DX12 feature. The 400 and 500 series “Fermi” GPUs will likely never use any DirectX 12 feature. Not only did you promise that your Geforce 400 and 500 series cards would support DX12, you have also been falsely advertising these cards on your website as DirectX 12 cards the whole time!ĭon’t even get me started on the nebulous term “support” regarding DX12.