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Agility SDK 1.618: Advanced Shader Delivery and 1.716 out of preview
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agility-sdk-1-618/
Published: September 25, 2025 17:00
We are pleased to announce the retail release of AgilitySDK 1.618, available on Agility SDK Downloads today! This release promotes our 1.716 features out of preview and also introduces support for the recently announced advanced shader delivery feature.…
Protected: The Silicon, Graphics, Media and AI (SiGMA) team is hiring!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/sigma-engineering-hiring-2025/
Published: September 25, 2025 06:26
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: The Silicon, Graphics, Media and AI (SiGMA) team is hiring! appeared first on DirectX Developer Blog.
Shader Model 6.9 and The Future of Cooperative Vector
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shader-model-6-9-and-the-future-of-cooperative-vector/
Published: September 11, 2025 17:00
Direct3D Cooperative Vector is Evolving DirectX continues to evolve to support the growing demands of AI and machine learning workloads. As part of this effort, we plan to introduce an expanded suite of linear algebra capabilities in a future Shader Model…
Introducing Advanced Shader Delivery
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/introducing-advanced-shader-delivery/
Published: August 20, 2025 16:10
This year at gamescom, Microsoft is highlighting new gaming features coming for Windows, particularly for handheld devices. We want to highlight one of the DirectX team’s most exciting new contributions to the PC gaming ecosystem, which will make its debut…
DirectStorage 1.3 is now available
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-1-3-is-now-available/
Published: July 1, 2025 18:00
Today we’re releasing DirectStorage 1.3, this update includes a new API and several refinements based on developer feedback. The package is now available for download via NuGet. Read on to learn about what’s new with DirectStorage 1.3. EnqueueRequests –…
D3D12 Cooperative Vector
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/cooperative-vector/
Published: June 2, 2025 17:00
Welcome to the preview release for Cooperative Vector support in D3D12. This exposes powerful new hardware acceleration for vector and matrix operations, enabling developers to efficiently drive neural rendering techniques directly from individual shader…
D3D12 Opacity Micromaps
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/omm/
Published: May 30, 2025 17:00
DirectX Raytracing (DXR) now supports Opacity Micromaps (OMMs), enabling hardware to handle alpha tested geometry more efficiently than relying only on costly AnyHit shader invocations. At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including OMMs, and you can see it…
D3D12 Shader Execution Reordering
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/ser/
Published: May 30, 2025 17:00
Shader Execution Reordering (SER) is an addition to DirectX Raytracing that enables application shader code inform hardware how to find coherency across rays so they can be sorted to execute better in parallel. At GDC 2025 DXR 1.2 was announced including…
Agility SDK 1.717-preview and 1.616-retail
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/agility-sdk-1-717-preview-and-1-616-retail/
Published: May 30, 2025 16:59
We are pleased to announce both a retail and preview Agility SDK release with several new features, available on Agility SDK Downloads today! As usual, the features in this release come with Day One PIX support. Please read the PIX blog post for more…
Announcing DirectX Raytracing 1.2, PIX, Neural Rendering and more at GDC 2025!
Published: March 20, 2025 21:24
Today in the DirectX State of the Union at GDC 2025, we proudly showcased the next evolution in graphics with the announcement of DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2. This update promises groundbreaking performance improvements and breathtaking visual fidelity,…