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 ...

DirectX 12 is coming in a preview form later this year. It will give developers more control over the rendering power of the Xbox One as well as PC gaming rigs.

Microsoft also let it be know today at their GDC 2014 presentation that they'd be bringing DirectX 12 to mobile platforms. That means Windows Phone 8, Windows 8.1 RT, and whatever else they ...

DirectX 12 debuted six years ago, introducing a new Direct3D graphics API that was more energy efficient and highly scalable across not just various PC form factors, but also the Xbox One.As we're ...

Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate, a new version of the graphics technology underpinning both Windows and the Xbox Series X, seeks to bind the two platforms even closer together with an array of ...

At this year's Game Developers Conference, Microsoft laid out the plans for its upcoming DirectX 12 release for Windows and Xbox One. Developers will be able to use these new APIs to boost ...

The new version, DirectX 12 Ultimate, largely unifies Windows PCs with the upcoming Xbox Series X platform, offering the platform's new precision rendering features to Windows gamers with ...

Microsoft has confirmed that DirectX 11.2 will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One. With DirectX 11.2 offering some cool new features, and yet no clear technological reason for making it ...

With Xbox 360, you'll be calling most of the same functions with the same parameters for each frame, while DirectX translates those into command buffers and feeds them to the GPU.

PC hardware with a DirectX 12 Ultimate badge will support the same features as the Xbox Series X. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

DirectX 12 on Xbox One Smarter Graphics Rendering. On the Xbox One, DirectX 12 could bring about meaningful improvements to its games and the system as a whole.

So much hinges on the potential of DirectX 12. Here we analyse how gamers and developers can benefit from it.