Microsoft rolls out Shader Model 6.10 and AgilitySDK 1.720, adding AI-ready APIs and improved GPU performance to DirectX 12.

Microsoft has released DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.619, introducing Shader Model 6.9 alongside new Direct3D 12 and DXR 1.2 features in a stable form for developers. The update enhances ray tracing ...

It may be hard to believe, but this August will be eight years since the release of the original GeForce RTX GPUs. Over time, matrix math accelerators have come to consume more and more of our GPU ...

Microsoft has officially added Shader Execution Reordering (SER) to DirectX 12 in the Agility SDK 1.619 release, making it a standard feature in Shader Model 6.9. The technology, which reorders ...

In context: Shader Execution Reordering significantly reduces the performance cost of ray tracing and path tracing in games such as Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on recent Nvidia ...

Shader Model 5.0 is old, having come out in 2009 with DirectX 11. It's long overdue for some innovation and a few changes to make it better than it is. Sure, games look great using the underlying ...

Last month, Microsoft announced it is bringing Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) for Windows to PC gamers via the latest AgilitySDK 1.619 release. The feature was originally unveiled by Microsoft's ...