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Microsoft will announce DirectX 12 March 20
Microsoft has prepared a small teaser on their website in which they make note of DirectX 12 being announced March 20. So lte me just say, heck yeah finally ! This will happen at the game developers conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will host two conferences called 'DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform' and 'DirectX: Direct3D Futures'. On MSDN Microsoft now also announced DX 12.
“Driver overhead has been a frustrating reality for game developers for the entire life of the PC game industry. On desktop systems, driver overhead can decrease frame rate, while on mobile devices driver overhead is more insidious–robbing both battery life and frame rate. In this unprecedented sponsored session, Graham Sellers (AMD), Tim Foley (Intel), Cass Everitt (NVIDIA) and John McDonald (NVIDIA) will present high-level concepts available in today’s OpenGL implementations that radically reduce driver overhead–by up to 10x or more. The techniques presented will apply to all major vendors and are suitable for use across multiple platforms. Additionally, they will demonstrate practical demos of the techniques in action in an extensible, open source comparison framework.”
From the looks of it (think mantle here) the earlier rumors on low-level access and control over hardware have been true. This will be a major feature of DX12 and will lower CPU overhead and thus cycles. Anyway, March 20th we'll learn more about the up and coming DX12. let's just hope you are not forced to upgrade to a new version of Windows to be able to use it.
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#4777797 Posted on: 03/06/2014 12:26 PM
This is M$ answer to AMD's Mantle
This is M$ answer to AMD's Mantle
This will be a major feature of DX12 and will lower CPU overhead and thus cycles
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#4777798 Posted on: 03/06/2014 12:27 PM
Maxwell won't support full DX11, leave alone DX12. Pirate islands from AMD are aimed for 2015...
That gonna be a long wait.
I was about to upgrade my GPU, time to postpone that, and see if dx12 will require a new HW that supports it.
Maxwell won't support full DX11, leave alone DX12. Pirate islands from AMD are aimed for 2015...
That gonna be a long wait.
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#4777802 Posted on: 03/06/2014 12:57 PM
AMD brought mantle support for 2 years old cards. Not only 290 series.
What M$ doing is not a business, its a robbery. Windows 7 is still supported, not like expired XP. Not like I care for DX12. Mantle does that and more, not much to lose for AMD owners.
And it will take another 2 years for developers to implement DX12. So yeah, expect DX12 around 2017.
whatever.
yup.
AMD brought mantle support for 2 years old cards. Not only 290 series.
What M$ doing is not a business, its a robbery. Windows 7 is still supported, not like expired XP. Not like I care for DX12. Mantle does that and more, not much to lose for AMD owners.
And it will take another 2 years for developers to implement DX12. So yeah, expect DX12 around 2017.
whatever.
yup.
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#4777804 Posted on: 03/06/2014 12:58 PM
And u know this..from?
We don`t know much about DX 12 and yet u say that it will be available around 2017 and the next cards from nVidia will not have full support for it...u know that u sound stupid,don`t u?
Maxwell won't support full DX11, leave alone DX12.
And u know this..from?
We don`t know much about DX 12 and yet u say that it will be available around 2017 and the next cards from nVidia will not have full support for it...u know that u sound stupid,don`t u?
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I was about to upgrade my GPU, time to postpone that, and see if dx12 will require a new HW that supports it.