Doubling the speed? Not really, according to some developers.
At GameStack Live, Microsoft announced and released the new DirectX 12 Agility SDK, which delivers DX12 Ultimate features to a larger base. There will benefits for Xbox, too.
Pretty cool. Should help devs adopt more modern rendering techniques on both PC & Xbox rather than have to target old versions to cover the majority of their users.
DSOGaming writes: "NVIDIA has just released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 451.48 WHQL driver adds full support for the DirectX 12 Ultimate graphics API. Additionally, this driver supports Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling when used with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update."
DSOGaming writes: "Microsoft has released the highly anticipated May 2020 Update for Windows 10. This Update brings support for both WDDM 2.7 and DirectX 12 Ultimate. Moreover, it packs some Xbox Game Bar improvements."
Crash restart lockup repeat. Windows. Wonder what will happen to people who take health advice from its creator.
As a note: WDDM 2.7 requires you to have updated drivers (which currently no official WQHL driver w/ support is available for Nvidia yet. Only development branch 450.xx). Also you need a 7th gen or newer Intel CPU w/ igpu, or a 10 series or newer Nvidia GPU, or latest AMD offerings.
Last time I update, the ethernet driver wasnt available so no matter what (even factory reset) I can't go online. The only way to update is to go online lol. Well I always wanted an offline laptop, so I guess got what I wish for :/
2015 is not far off i am skeptical but would love to see what MS is cooking in their software labs to make such bold claims
An important fact is that Sony already has a low level API so while it's great that the efficiency will be improved on future Xbone games, it's basically catching up with what is already possible on the PS4.
I think it's obvious that statements like "giving every Xbox One owner a new GPU that is twice as fast as the old one" are pure PR talk. It's obviously going to improve things which is great but doubliing GPU speed is too much to ask for.
who said twice as fast?
That's just silly. Improvement yes but not doubling of power.
Its just another topic for MS to keep their hardware relevant in the power struggle it faces versus the PS4 which has a definitive edge this gen. I am sure DX12 will be nice and all but will never double the power or give owners a 'new' gpu - thats a little much.