What's the difference between DirectX 12 and AMD's Mantle? Why should you even care? Here's the answers you need to know.

It included things that were digestible and made sense to expose through both Direct3D 11 and Direct3D 12 programming models. Take tiled resources, for example.

Matt Sandy, a Direct3D program manager at Microsoft, said in a March 20 blog post that DirectX 12 “introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX ...

Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows which is a part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where ...

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 9, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced continued industry support for DirectX® 8.0, the latest version of the Microsoft® multimedia API built into the Windows® operating system ...

Wine 3.0, by contrast, brings official support for both Direct 3D 10 and Direct3D 11 - the latter only one version short of Microsoft's Windows 10-exclusive Direct3D 12, the current release.