DirectX® 12 Ultimate
The New Gold Standard for the Next-Generation of Games
With Microsoft® DirectX® 12 (DX12), you get blazingly fast performance, high frames per second, and reduced latency on all AMD Radeon™ graphics cards.
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Features
DirectX® Raytracing
Experience Photorealistic Games
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) adds a new level of graphics realism to games through effects like reflections, shadows, and global illumination at real-time frame rates on the latest AMD Radeon™ graphics for desktops and laptops.
Variable Rate Shading
Helps Boost Performance
Variable Rate Shading (VRS) helps prioritize the rendering power for the visual areas that matter most. AMD FidelityFX1 Variable Shading optimizes the rendering of frames for maximum performance without lowering the image quality.
Mesh Shaders
Explore Vast Open Worlds
Mesh Shaders enable more realistic and immersive game worlds by efficiently rendering extremely complex scenes.
Sampler Feedback
Uninterrupted Immersive Detail
Sampler Feedback enables games to efficiently render vast open worlds filled with high resolution textures.
The DirectX® 12 Difference
Get Blazingly Fast Performance
DirectX® 12 technology taps into all the cores of your multicore CPU simultaneously, boosting the amount of work that can be sent to the graphics card. Plus, DirectX® 12 multi-threaded command buffer recording and support for asynchronous shaders allows your GPU to run multiple tasks at once, to help save rendering time, reduce latency, and get more frames per second.
Multi-threaded Command Buffer
Multi-threaded command buffer recording in DirectX® 12 opens up a wide communication lane between your CPU and your AMD Radeon™ GPU – so more than one CPU core can talk to the GPU at a time for a low API overhead.
Asynchronous Shaders
Asynchronous shaders operate like a highway – eliminating any scheduling hold ups and making it possible for the GPU to execute multiple tasks at the same time. Small tasks merge into gaps in the traffic of existing tasks – so DirectX® 12 based games can get more work done in the same amount of time.
AMD and DX12
DX12 Ultimate brings never before seen visual fidelity to the latest games.
