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Intel jumps from DirectX 9 to 12
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 16 August 2022 11:43

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
Published in Mobiles


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
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 08 March 2018 10:04

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
Published in Graphics


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
Published in Graphics
Monday, 21 December 2015 11:10

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
Published in Graphics


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
Published in News
Monday, 29 June 2015 18:15

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
Published in Graphics


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
Published in Graphics


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.

Friday, 21 November 2014 09:18

AMD provides another Mantle update

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