Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a better ...

The interface is designed to let take advantage of the GPU and multicore CPUs for parallel programming tasks. The standards group will have to convince browser makers to adopt it, though. Stephen ...

A lot of attention goes to the Nvidia and AMD driver updates. Of course, even their graphics cards have to bow to the mercy of DirectX at the best of times. The last major update was back in October ...

ShaderMark 2.0DirectX 9 Pixel and Vertex Shader 2.0 performance To measure pure DirectX 9 Shader 2.0 performance we make use of ShaderMark 2.0 as supplied to us by Thomas Bruckschlegel, the programmer ...

Every month team at Creative Assembly debunks some common dev role myths. This month, Tamás Rábel, rendering technical director at Creative Assembly looks into the magic of graphics programming. In my ...