Ray tracing performance on PC just got a quiet but significant push forward. Microsoft has officially standardized Shader ...

Shader Model 5.0 is old, having come out in 2009 with DirectX 11. It's long overdue for some innovation and a few changes to make it better than it is. Sure, games look great using the underlying ...

Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 Shader Model 6.9 along with a set of Direct3D 12 improvements that target both shader authoring and the runtime plumbing behind modern engines. The update is framed ...

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...

Microsoft unveils AI-powered DirectX upgrades at GDC 2026, including neural rendering features, new ML tools, and DXR 2.0.

In context: Shader Execution Reordering significantly reduces the performance cost of ray tracing and path tracing in games such as Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on recent Nvidia ...