But to enable these new technologies, the hardware built by companies need to be full compliant with it.ĪMD has recently confirmed that their current cards can support Feature Level 12_0 at best while NVIDIA's Maxwell 2.0 architecture has support for Feature Level 12_1.
We have talked about these features in previous articles detailing the performance improvement, explicit multi-adapter technology and graphical updates. Feature Level 12_1 has the Raster Order Views, Conservative Raster and Volume Tiled Raster enabled on the API. The feature level 12_0 comes with Tiled Resources, Typed UAV Access and Bindless Textures support.
The reference DirectX 12 API (Feature Level 11_0) has performance targeted features while the other two level deliver graphical improvement and this is what really matters in improving the games visually. The other features included more control over hardware by the developers and a fully asynchronous computing method which is faster and efficient. The first thing we knew about DirectX 12 API was that it was built for low CPU overhead by reducing the CPU bottleneck faced by the graphics card and fully utilize the processor to its maximum potential. We have come a long way since the revelation and bits by bits, we get more information regarding the different feature levels and advantages of the API. Since its announcement, graphics manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and even Qualcomm have claimed that the hardware they built will fully support DirectX 12 capabilities. It is designed for PCs, Consoles, Tablets and even phones that are running the Microsoft Windows 10 OS. AMD DirectX 12 Support Limited To Feature Level 12_0 - Fiji Might Be The Only Feature Level 12_1 Compliant ArchitectureĭirectX 12 will be the latest API from Microsoft that is built to leverage performance across several platforms. In an interview with Computerbase regarding DirectX 12, AMD's Robert Hallock (Head of global technical marketing) revealed that their current GCN cards don't feature full DirectX 12 support and are limited to Feature Level 12_0 while the rivaling Maxwell graphics cards have full Feature Level 12_1 support. There has a lot of talk going on around DirectX 12 and how new and current graphics cards would utilize the latest API to leverage performance in upcoming gaming titles.
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