Microsoft has recently showcased the much anticipated DirectX 12 and what was shown was really promising.

Cyberland has reported that the much anticipated Microsoft DirectX 12 would be bundled with Windows 9 but it would be compatible for Windows 8/ Windows 8.1 powered PCs but not for Windows 7 powered computers.

IT World has reported that similar to previous Microsoft DirectX releases, the Microsoft DirectX 12 update would be bundled with the release of Windows 9.

But what can we expect from the Microsoft DirectX 12 update compared to DX11?

PC World has documented how Microsoft and Intel has shown how powerful the new Microsoft DirectX 12 update is:

"In a demonstration at this week's SIGGRAPH show in Los Angeles, both Intel and Microsoft showed off a custom demonstration running on top of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, powered by a low-power version of Intel's latest "Haswell" Core processor. When flipping the rendering engine from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12, the power consumed by the system dropped by 50 percent."

"Specifically, Intel showed off a custom application running on the Surface Pro 3 and its Intel HD4400 graphics chip, rendering a scene of 50,000 fully asteroids tumbling through space. The application switched between using the DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 APIs at the tap of a button."

"To test the power, Intel "frame locked" the demonstration app, then let the demo run. The power consumed dropped in half. But Intel then unlocked the frame rate and let the app run at full power-and the frame rate improved by more than 50 percent, too. In part, that's because DirectX 12 enables the GPU to take over more of the traditional computing load, including physics and collisions."

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