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Aug 7, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Ana Carvalho |Joshua Tucker |Chad Pralle |Jacques van Rhyn
August 7th, 2024 Do you want to be a part of the Silicon Graphics Media and Artificial Intelligence (SiGMA) platform team?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Amar Patel |Joshua Tucker |Chad Pralle |Jacques van Rhyn
July 18th, 2024 Hi everyone,Today we’re excited to announce the newest Preview Agility SDK v1.715.0, download here. Since this is a preview SDK, the new features are not in final state and thus only available via Developer Mode within Windows (see the prerequisites section for more). This preview serves as a first look to explore what might be possible to ship in a future retail Agility SDK.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Chris Bieneman |Joshua Tucker |Chad Pralle |Jacques van Rhyn
July 10th, 2024 Today the HLSL team is announcing plans to open source the DXIL validator hashing algorithm and include it in the DirectXShaderCompiler sources on GitHub. If you’re wondering what any of that means, strap in!To understand the DXIL Validator you first need to understand a few basics of what DXIL is. DXIL, the DirectX Intermediate Language, is the format used to provide shader binaries to DirectX drivers.
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May 28, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Amar Patel |Jacques van Rhyn |Chris Bieneman
May 28th, 2024 The HLSL team is excited to announce DXC 1.8.2405 which is a packed release! In addition to a healthy assortment of bug fixes and quality of life improvements, this release features two things we’re really excited about. First this is the first DXC release to contain Windows binaries built with Clang alongside the binaries built with MSVC, and it includes the first feature planned for the next HLSL language version, which is ready for user testing.
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May 16, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | David Cook |Jacques van Rhyn
May 16th, 2024 Today the DirectX team is excited to announce the release of the Agility SDK 1.614.0 which includes full support for R9G9B9E5_SHAREDEXP (999E5) texture format for render targets and UAV read/writes! This new Agility SDK is also fully supported by PIX. To get the latest release head on over to our Agility SDK downloads page. 999E5 was and Direct3D 12 in a limited capacity.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Amar Patel |Jacques van Rhyn |Joshua Tucker
March 11th, 2024 This is the official release of D3D12 Work Graphs, enabling new types of GPU autonomy, originally available as a preview in 2023. To start, here’s what Epic sees:With the proliferation of GPU-driven rendering techniques – such as Nanite in Unreal Engine 5 – the role of the CPU is trending towards primarily resource management and hazard tracking, with only a fraction of time spent generating GPU commands.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Joshua Tucker |Jacques van Rhyn
March 11th, 2024 We’re pleased to announce the release of our latest Agility SDK, complete with features we’ll be showcasing at GDC 2024.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Joshua Tucker |Jacques van Rhyn
February 28th, 2024 The excitement is building as we finish our preparations for this year’s Game Developers Conference, set to kick off on March 18th. Industry leaders, developers, and enthusiasts will converge on San Francisco for a week of innovation, and the DirectX team here at Microsoft has a lot of exciting news to share. We’ve been gearing up to showcase new functionality in the Windows gaming ecosystem, including features that will define the future of graphics.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
devblogs.microsoft.com | Chad Pralle |Jacques van Rhyn
February 1st, 2024 With the release of DirectML 1.13.1 and the ONNX Runtime 1.17, we are excited to announce developer preview support for NPU acceleration in DirectML, the machine learning platform API for Windows. This developer preview enables support for a subset of models on new Windows 11 devices with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors with Intel® AI boost. This initial release was developed using open source models and in close partnership with our launch partner, Samsung.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
codeproject.com | Chad Pralle |Jacques van Rhyn
February 1st, 2024 With the release of DirectML 1.13.1 and the ONNX Runtime 1.17, we are excited to announce developer preview support for NPU acceleration in DirectML, the machine learning platform API for Windows. This developer preview enables support for a subset of models on new Windows 11 devices with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors with Intel® AI boost. This initial release was developed using open source models and in close partnership with our launch partner, Samsung.
