What is now the foundation of most PC games began almost 30 years ago as a desperate act of self-defence. A look at ...

One of the latest announcements from Fortnite developer Epic Games has confirmed that users with graphics cards that don’t have DirectX 11 will no longer be supported once the hit game launches into ...

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And the day has finally come. Despite the fact that AMD's Roy Taylor told us a year ago that there is no such thing as DirectX 12, Microsoft has announced its next generation API. DirectX 12 is in ...

The PC industry is finally making a push toward a “holy grail” rendering technique that makes computer-generated imagery in movies appear so much more lifelike than the graphics in games. At GDC 2018 ...

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—AMD announced the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 and ATI Radeon HD 2400 series, the mid-range and entry-level graphics processors in the ATI Radeon HD 2000 series. “The ATI Radeon ...

Advanced Micro Devices announced new DirectX 11 mobile graphics processors which should bring improved graphics and application performance to Windows 7 laptops, the company said on Thursday. The ...

Advanced Micro Devices will soon launch a graphics card that supports Microsoft’s DirectX 11, which aims to make graphics in Windows 7 seem smoother and more realistic. The release of AMD’s first ...

Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D APIs are now under the umbrella ...

Tessellation has been around ever since the launch of Microsoft's Xbox 360 in late 2005 – the ATI-designed Xenos GPU included a dedicated hardware tessellation unit. The reason behind the addition was ...