Games are increasingly being rendered using AI, so Microsoft is bringing AI into the way future graphics chips will render games. Microsoft introduced DirectX Linear Algebra as well as the DirectX ...

One thing that we apparently missed in AMD’s recently released drivers is the fact that this release enabled multi-GPU frame pacing support in DirectX 12 on all GCN-enabled GPUs and AMD APUs based on ...

Ray tracing performance on PC just got a quiet but significant push forward. Microsoft has officially standardized Shader ...

The messaging marks a sharper, more public pivot than the firm has made in years. "We started adding hardware-based support ...

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 ...

Microsoft's DirectX API has been a core part of gaming for decades, and Microsoft is preparing to upgrade this platform for the AI era. The new DirectX will have AI upscaling at the core, giving ...

Gaming graphics have been on a constant improvement trajectory since the early days, with new technologies leveling up the experience. Ray tracing has been one such focus that brings gorgeous lighting ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

CES 2025 brought us plenty of GPU tech to be excited about, much of it from NVIDIA. The GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs feature advanced AI tricks, with technologies such as DLSS 4 and neural rendering.

Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS. Two very different types of graphics driver stack both received ...