DirectX Graphics Infrastructure (DXGI) is a user-mode component of Microsoft Windows (for Windows Vista and above) which provides a mapping between particular...

while the DirectX pattern has been continued for Windows APIs such as Direct2D and DirectWrite. Direct3D (the 3D graphics API within DirectX) is widely...

is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications...

DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is a feature introduced in Microsoft's DirectX 12 that implements ray tracing, for video graphic rendering. DXR was released...

renderer DirectX — a library created by Microsoft, to run under Windows operating systems and 'Direct' Xbox Display PostScript emWin — an Embedded Graphics Library...

DirectDraw (ddraw.dll) is an API that used to be a part of Microsoft's DirectX API. DirectDraw is used to accelerate rendering of 2D graphics in applications...

emulating Intel-based systems, and stated that its lack of support for DirectX graphics acceleration makes it a poor choice for gaming. "UTM Virtual Machines"...

business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team. Plunkett...

Rasterization Platform (WARP) is a software rasterizer and a component of DirectX graphics runtime in Windows 7 and later. It is available for Windows Vista and...

generation, Arc only includes direct hardware support for the DirectX 11 & 12 and Vulkan graphics APIs, with the older DirectX 9 & 10 and OpenGL APIs being...

one or more 2D graphics API for 2D acceleration, such as GDI and DirectDraw. A GPU can support one or more 3D graphics API, such as DirectX, Metal, OpenGL...

only configurable and non-programmable. Graphics APIs of this time, notably OpenGL and early versions DirectX (Direct3D), are themselves retroactively...

are many varieties of files supporting 3-D graphics, for example, Wavefront .obj files, .fbx and .x DirectX files. Each file type generally tends to have...

Microsoft to identify data formats used in DirectX, specifically within DirectShow and DirectX Graphics. Since Mac OS X Panther, OSType signatures are one of...

company continues to develop and support the technology for DirectX 11 applications. For DirectX 12 applications, AMD has the mGPU (also known as multi-GPU)...

make use of more advanced graphics and keep performance, an API such as DirectX or OpenGL needs to be installed. In Microsoft Windows, the GDI functionality...

browsers graphics engine, a cross-platform translator of OpenGL ES calls to DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API calls. Direct3D (a subset of DirectX) Glide a...

The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to...

easily share data resources with the graphics pipeline. Ray tracing shaders are supported by Microsoft via DirectX Raytracing, by Khronos Group via Vulkan...

vectors or row vectors. Different graphics libraries have different preferences here. OpenGL prefers column vectors, DirectX row vectors. The decision determines...

architect of Fahrenheit at SGI, worked at Microsoft on DirectX until 2010. He was also Chief Graphics Software Architect at Intel. QuickDraw 3D Microsoft...

Unreleased 3dfx Rampage, DirectX 8 PS 1.1 — GeForce 3, DirectX 8 PS 1.2 — 3Dlabs Wildcat VP, DirectX 8.1 PS 1.3 — GeForce 4 Ti, DirectX 8.1 PS 1.4 — Radeon...

multi-display graphics for businesses such as financial traders. Architecture Celsius (NV1x): DirectX 7, OpenGL 1.2 (1.3) Architecture Kelvin (NV2x): DirectX 8 (8...

Intel's first DirectX 9 GPUs with hardware Pixel Shader 2.0 support. The last generation of motherboard integrated graphics. Full hardware DirectX 10 support...

advanced DirectX 6.0 accelerator in 1999 Rage 128. The All-in-Wonder product line, introduced in 1996, was the first combination of integrated graphics chip...

versions. DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs, and was initially released with the DirectX 11 API but runs on graphics processing...

computational problems in terms of graphics primitives, as supported by the two major APIs for graphics processors, OpenGL and DirectX. This cumbersome translation...

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upgrade from the previous Extreme 3D graphics processors. It is a 4 pixel per clock cycle design supporting DirectX 9 pixel shader model 2.0. It operates...

there are certain APU+GPU combinations that only work in Directx 10 or above with the APU graphics being the default rendering GPU, notably A6/A8-3000 series...