{"id":62767,"date":"2014-03-24T01:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62767"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:24:21","slug":"directx-12-detailed-will-you-need-a-new-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62767-directx-12-detailed-will-you-need-a-new-gpu","title":{"rendered":"DirectX 12 detailed – will you need a new GPU?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft recently unveiled the latest version of their multimedia API, DirectX 12, which includes the the latest version of the Direct3D API.<\/p>\n

The good news is that most PC gamers won’t need to upgrade their GPU to enjoy the new features.<\/p>\n

AMD said that it will support DirectX 12 on all AMD Radeon GPUs that feature the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.<\/p>\n

Nvidia said it will support DirectX 12 on all the DirectX 11-class GPUs it has shipped; these belong to the Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell architectural families.<\/p>\n

Games using DirectX 12 should start appearing in 2015, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n

Direct3D will be implementable across a range of devices, from phones and tablets to desktop gaming PCs and the Xbox One.<\/p>\n

Microsoft claims Direct3D will improve multithreaded scaling and CPU performance, and introduce various new algorithms for 3D processing.<\/p>\n

Microsoft provided the benchmark results below to show the performance gains. This shows a comparison of DirectX 11 (top) to DirectX 12 (bottom).<\/p>\n

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Microsoft, AMD, and Nvidia have unveiled DirectX 12 – but will you need new hardware to use it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":55772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1051,12079,21,91,45],"class_list":["post-62767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-amd","tag-directx-12","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}