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DirectX 12 is now 10 years old but even with all its updates, it's still not the API to rule them all

In the late summer of 2014, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be rolled out to PC users around the world in the following year. At the same time, it also revealed that the new operating system ...
PC World

DirectX updates could boost ray tracing performance up to 90%

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader Execution Reordering technology. Intel Arc B-Series GPUs showed remarkable 90 ...
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The Division DirectX 12 patch gives boost to AMD GPUs

Does not sound good for Nvidia The latest patch for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division game has given a decent performance boost to DirectX 12 capable graphics cards and it… Does not sound good for ...
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Microsoft DirectX 12 Update Could Double Path-Traced Game FPS, Boost Game AI

Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers ...