
With the Mantle API, AMD has already shown the world the incredible performance that can be developed, and we look forward to achieving the same performance by helping to develop the current industry standard, DirectX.” In the words of Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager of the AMD graphics unit, “AMD strongly believes in the benefits of developing APIs that access hardware at a low level.

Thus, AMD will collaborate with Microsoft in the development of the generational update of its API to continue improving the experience for both developers and end users. During the Microsoft conference, called “DirectX: Evolving Microsoft’s Graphics Platform”, AMD revealed that it would fully support DirectX 12 on all AMD Radeon graphics cards with Graphics Core Next architecture.

AMD announced full support for Microsoft and DirectX 12, its famous API that has been used in PC games for almost two decades. The GDC started yesterday, and we already have the first important news. AMD Demonstrates Full DirectX 12 Support at GDC
