Intel jumps from DirectX 9 to 12
On Xe, Arc GPUs
Intel has moved from native DX9 hardware support on its Intel's Xe integrated graphics solutions on 12th Gen CPUs and A-Series Arc Alchemist discrete GPUs to DirectX 12.
Apple finally gets around to inventing MetalFX Upscaling
Years behind everyone else
The Tame Apple Press is all excited that their favourite corporate giant is adding MetalFX Upscaling to its Metal 3 gaming API.
Android P falls for the notch
In door navigation, new AI and camera API
2018 is all about a bezel less screen with a notch, at least for the high end Androids and iPhones. Google is aware of that and the Android P has improved support, with the notch in mind.
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 look good for Nvidia GPUs as their GPUs still work better on DirectX 11.
Vulkan 1.0 update delayed
The needs of the few outweighed the needs of the many
The people behind Vulkan, the new generation, open standard API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs, have admitted that they are having a few problems.
DirectX 12 sports an impressive multi-GPU feature
Provides a decent performance boost
Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 12 API will bring plenty of performance improvements but one the most impressive is its ability to mix GPUs and combine Radeon and Geforce graphics cards for some extra performance.
Software APIs eligible for trollage
Because the US courts are ignorant
The Software industry is in big trouble after the US Supreme Court did not step into Oracle's battle with Google over whether APIs were copyrightable.
AMD shows DirectX 12 performance in 3DMark benchmark
DirectX 12 does well on AMD R9 290X and FX-8370
Now that Futuremark has released a new update for 3DMark which brings 3DMark API Overhead benchmark, AMD was quite keen to show some performance figures on its Radeon R9 290X graphics card, as well as performance scaling on the octa-core FX-8370 CPU.
Futuremark releases 3DMark update with API Overhead feature-set
For measuring difference between DX11, DX12 and Mantle APIs
Futuremark has released a new 3DMark update with the new API Overhead feature test, meant to measure the difference in DirectX 11, DirectX 12 and Mantle API performance.
AMD provides another Mantle update
Three cool games coming soon