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DirectX 12

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What is DirectX 12?

DirectX 12 is a low-level API developed by Microsoft for handling tasks related to 3D graphics and multimedia, especially video games. It offers closer-to-the-metal access to the GPU, enabling developers to exert finer control over hardware resources and achieve improved performance and efficiency compared to earlier DirectX versions. Common uses include rendering complex scenes, implementing advanced graphical effects, and optimizing resource management in games and other graphically intensive applications.

What other technologies are related to DirectX 12?

DirectX 12 Competitor Technologies

Vulkan is a low-level graphics API that competes with DirectX 12 for rendering applications.
mentioned alongside DirectX 12 in 3% (203) of relevant job posts
Metal is Apple's low-level graphics API, competing with DirectX 12 on Apple platforms.
mentioned alongside DirectX 12 in 3% (114) of relevant job posts

DirectX 12 Complementary Technologies

HLSL (High-Level Shading Language) is the shading language used with DirectX, thus highly complementary.
mentioned alongside DirectX 12 in 3% (87) of relevant job posts
Unity is a game engine that supports DirectX 12 as a rendering backend, making it complementary.
mentioned alongside DirectX 12 in 0% (63) of relevant job posts
C++ is a common language used for developing applications using DirectX 12, thus is complementary.
mentioned alongside DirectX 12 in 0% (192) of relevant job posts

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