A Spatio-Temporal Acceleration Framework for Order-Independent Transparency

Today we released DxTimingCaptureLibrary, an open-source C++ library for DirectX developers. It is available on GitHub under the MIT license, and it works

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If you write in C, by default, you use a single thread. Extra cores do not help until you create more threads. However, if you include the header <threads.h>, you can pass a function to thrd_create, a...

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Introduction

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Shaders are GPU programs that process visual data—such as rays, pixels, geometry, and textures—to produce specific rendering effects. Shaders find necessary data through a process called resource…

Learn to diagnose CPU and GPU bottlenecks in gaming performance with tools like CapFrameX and PresentMon for optimized PC setups.

STAR-NT: Spatiotemporal Acceleration of Real-Time Neural Transparency Rendering

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<p>Algorithms leveraging ReSTIR-style spatiotemporal reuse have recently proliferated, hugely increasing effective sample count for light transport in real-time ray and path tracers. Many papers have ...

AMD DGF SuperCompression (DGFS) cuts DGF geometry file sizes while preserving exact block reconstruction and enabling fast decode to either DGF blocks or conventional meshlets for cross-device deploym...

Overview Today, we are pleased to announce that Shader Model 6.10 and other features have been officially released with Agility SDK 1.720-preview and complementary DXC 1.10.2605.2. AgilitySDK 1.720-pr...

A closer look at how a close engineering collaboration between id Software and Xbox ATG brought DOOM: The Dark Ages to life.

Watch our GDC 2026 sessions on-demand, which explore how NVIDIA RTX™ neural rendering and AI are defining the next era of gaming.

Sometimes, it’s interesting to look back into the past. Especially in gaming, where we have graphics hardware capable of processing…

Modern processors have the ability to execute many instructions per cycle, on a single core. To be able to execute many instructions per cycle in practice, processors predict branches. I have made the...

Understanding the evolution of consoles through their architecture

Buffer<float> someData; RWBuffer<float> output; //random function that does some work float ProcessData(uint2 coords) { float result = someData[coords.x] + someData[coords.y]; result = pow(re...

Let's get into the details of how this integrates with Nanite. We aren’t replacing anything Nanite already does. Nothing is changed about th...

On March 12th 2026 the DirectX team, together with our hardware partners, hosted DirectX: Bringing Console-Level GPU Developer Tools to Windows at GDC.

Adobe's reference implementation of the OpenPBR BSDF - adobe/openpbr-bsdf

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