eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. During this week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San ...

New in DirectX 12 feature Level 12_2, a “feature level” is a name that is used to describe a bunch of graphics card capabilities. “Feature level” is a property of your graphics card. Successive ...

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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are what processes the command you make and interfaces with the software to get you the result that you need. An API call involves making a request to the ...

At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...