For something that won’t be seeing the light of day until next year, DirectX 12 is in the news an awful lot. Whether it be on the PC or the Xbox One, a week doesn’t go by without the new API popping up on the radar. And for good reason, its release will certainly.

Microsoft’s GDC 2014 announcement of DirectX 12 came as little surprise to those in the tech industry, MS had boasted and teased about its released in advance after all. Rather, the surprise came with just how similarly it seemed to resemble AMD’s Mantle technology, and that it would work on current graphics cards. If.