Improvements to deferred shading techniques: Logic ops.Enabling Direct3D 11 applications to implement high-quality rendering algorithms without needing to allocate memory for large numbers of samples: Unordered access views with multi-sample anti-alias sample access.Added capabilities to enable shader debugging at all shader stages on DirectX 11.1 hardware: UAVs at every stage.Higher performance for Direct3D11.1 applications on mobile platforms and power constraint devices that use tile-based renderers: No overwrite and discard.Higher performance anti-aliasing path for D2D applications: Target-independent rasterization.High Level Shader model performance improvements that can enable developers to do more on the GPU without involving the CPU: Double-precision shader functionality.There are additional improvements that Microsoft highlighted for Windows 8 DirectX, including: Microsoft stresses that even on lower-power hardware, applications designed to take advantage of DirectX will be able to deliver higher performance, pointing to configurations such as pixel formats (5551, 565, 4444) as an example.

The Redmond company published a whitepaper titled “Windows Display Driver Model Enhancements in Windows Developer Preview” on the Windows Dev Center, the hub set up especially for Windows 8, and launched with the release of Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3). In fact, according to the software giant, the Windows 8 DirectX 11 feature enhancements will end up benefiting not only developers, but also end users and system manufacturers.

Windows 8 will not bring to the table an evolution of the underlying graphics platform of the same magnitude as the move from DirectX 10 to DirectX 11, as in fact, the OS still features DirectX 11.īut this doesn’t mean that there aren’t improvements to speak of, because this is not the case.

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