What's the difference between DirectX 12 and AMD's Mantle? Why should you even care? Here's the answers you need to know.

Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing tools for DirectX 12 make the holy grail of graphics possible: real-time ray tracing effects. And we have the first video to prove it!

Under DirectX 11 the demo runs at just 19FPS - switching over to DirectX 12 that jumps up to 33FPS. That's over 70% quicker on the exact same hardware, just operating with updated DirectX software.

Microsoft's new DirectX 10 graphics API will run on the aging Windows XP operating system. This is the bold claim being made by a 19-year-old software developer today. If successful, the Alky ...

Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP. I have to agree with Newell.

This year's update to Microsoft's DirectX API will not make it easier for developers to run games at 1080p resolution on Xbox One, according to CD Projekt Red.

Valve has made Dota 2's Direct3D to OpenGL translation layer open source. This is the piece of code that allows Valve to take a standard DirectX Windows game that uses the Source engine (Dota 2 ...