With Windows 10’s release drawing ever closer, DirectX 12 news continues to pop up thick and fast. A few days ago, AMD revealed that the Asynchronous Shaders, (which is part of DirectX 12 specs) and the Graphics Core Next (GCN) Asynchronous  Compute Engine architecture powering Radeon graphics cards will drastically improve performance of DX12.

Microsoft’s decision to build a Universal Windows Platform has been on the mind of developers for some time, and we first heard murmurs of the companies plans last year. But now, at the Build 2015 conference, Microsoft have finally provided a few hints on how this will work, and will reveal even more information.

Although I’m in danger of repeating myself a little, there’s a lot of excitement in the air for Microsoft’s DirectX 12 and for good reason too. The new API has a lot of benefits over the old guard (DX11), including far greater multi-threading support, increased draw calls, large performance improvements and also improved compute.

For months we’ve been reading about the performance supposed performance benefits of DirectX 12 with no real way of testing anything for ourselves – and now finally Futuremark have released an update for their 3DMark benchmarking software. This update provides a way of testing ‘API Overhead’ and the results are rather startling; demonstrating precisely.

Brad Wardell, the CEO of Stardock Studios, has been a long time advocate of the performance of the ‘next gen’ API’s, such as DirectX 12 and AMD’s Mantle. He’s has also been more vocal than a lot of developers (who’ve maintained a high degree of radio silence, particularly over DX12) which gives us a.

Phil Spencer is the chap Microsoft appointed to be head of the Xbox division, replacing Don Mattrick back in July. Since Phil has taken up the mantle of chief, it’s fair to say the Xbox One is being seen in much more positive light. Recently, the Inner Circle podcast got a chance to catch.

Console memory is a key cause for concern with developers, and after the previous generations RAM limitations with both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, it’s fair to say anticipation was high how much RAM Microsoft and Sony would pack into their systems. The previous generation managed a rather meager 512MB (though some of.

Back in GDC 2014 Microsoft formally unveiled it was working on DirectX 12, which would be the focus of radical changes to Microsoft’s flagship API. Taking a rather Mantle (or console) like approach, it would provide control to the GPU and allows developers access to lower level functions of the hardware. Combine this with.

There are two groups of gamer’s who’re eager to get their hands on any DirectX 12 information, the first being PC gamer’s and the second Xbox One owners. Microsoft’s newest API isn’t being released until next year, but it’s showing a lot of promise – and according to the latest demos shown off (by.

AMD’s shiny new API is out in the wild, already developers such as DICE are embracing Mantle and users who’ve opted for certain AMD GPU’s are taking advantage of the performance gains. But let’s say you’re torn between buying an AMD Radeon GPU or one of Nvidia’s Geforce lines – should Mantle be a.

When it comes to Sony’s strategies for console optimization, ICE Team are the ones usually in the lime light. But in reality, there are other teams also responsible for producing the tools, strategies and optimizations to improve the systems performance over the long haul. ICE Team typically work on API related ‘stuff’, including GPU.

Chances are good that if you’ve been following along with gaming news recently, you’ve had your interests piqued with regards to last years announcement Microsoft will be bringing DirectX 12 to their Xbox One console. There has been a lot of hype and speculation regarding what it would mean for the system, and we’ve.

Since the Playstation 4 or Xbox One’s specs were leaked online both gamer’s and media have placed a lot of their focus on both the resolution a game runs at, along with its frame rate. Much of the the Xbox One vs Playstation 4 debate revolves around resolution and if a game runs at.

The topic of Mantle, DX12 and various other API’s is popping up a lot recently, and just yesterday we’d discussed comments between ICE Team, Naughty Dog and other developers providing insights into their thoughts on the various competing offerings. Today we’ve a little more information as Cort Stratton and other developers have once again.