There's been a great deal of confusion over what it means to support various DirectX 12 feature levels and how this relates to various GPUs from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. AMD and Nvidia have been ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s new DirectX ray tracing updates could deliver performance boosts of 40-90% through Shader ...

Intel has now officially dropped native hardware support for DirectX 9, and this applies to both integrated Xe graphics on Alder Lake CPUs and discrete Arc Alchemist GPUs. This doesn’t mean that Intel ...

In context: It shouldn't surprise anyone that Intel's Arc Alchemist GPUs don't come with drivers on the same level as Nvidia and AMD offerings. Team Blue has a lot of catching up to do, and now it's ...

Microsoft has published some details on its upcoming DirectX 12_2 feature level and which companies will be supporting these new capabilities in upcoming GPUs. If you're wondering how DirectX 12_2 and ...

The Intel Arc GPU launch is proceeding less than smoothly to put it lightly, with team blue still yet to release any cards outside of China. Now, it appears that the company has opted to ditch support ...

When they launched last fall, Intel’s drivers for its Arc dedicated graphics cards were in rough shape. The company’s messaging at the time—and for months beforehand—was something along the lines of, ...

Plenty of news regarding GPUs and the tech behind them has come out of GDC 2025, and Microsoft has now announced an update to DirectX Raytracing (DXR) at its DirectX State of the Union presentation.

The latest DirectX release standardizes advanced rendering features key to path-tracing performance and the use of AI in games.