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 ...

Microsoft DirectX 12 Update Could Double Path-Traced Game FPS, Boost Game AI

The latest DirectX release standardizes advanced rendering features key to path-tracing performance and the use of AI in games.

GDC 2015: AMD releases Mantle reference API, asks developers to focus on DirectX 12

Over the past few months, we’ve covered DirectX 12 and showed you the level of performance gains it can achieve. DirectX 12 promises to bring the same types of low-level APIs that allow game ...
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Rainbow Six Siege moves to DirectX 12 on PC, Ubisoft preps massive R6 Siege X update

Ubisoft needs a win, and its hail mary game plan includes a big overhaul of Rainbow Six Siege. The shooter is entering its 10th year on the market with no sequel in sight, with the teams instead ...
Digital Spy

Microsoft Windows 10 to ship with DirectX 12 graphics API

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will ship with the latest version of its dedicated graphics API, DirectX 12. The software is now available for developers to test by signing up to the Windows ...
ExtremeTech

Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX -- even on Windows

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...
ExtremeTech

Valve open-sources its DirectX to OpenGL translation software: Here come the SteamOS and Linux games?

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2, Team ...