In essence, DX12 Ultimate brings together all of DX12's upcoming features such as DirectX Raytracing and Variable Rate Shading, as well as adding new major features such as Mesh Shaders and Sampler Feedback.

The new DX12 Ultimate is the result of five years of continual investment in the DirectX 12 platform to keep Xbox consoles and Windows PCs at the cutting edge of gaming. The computers you or I may have right now may have vastly different hardware in them in two years from now and we may have some breakthrough where 20 Core processors become the standard in Desktop computing (It won’t, but I’m just trying to make my point here) - If we’re still on DX11, This platform will be as useful as FS2004 is on our current hardware.Microsoft has announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, which it calls the next evolution of DirectX. In terms of that thread linked, I recommend voting for it. Additionally, Being that DX12 is built around multi-core processors, it can more efficiently allow work across more cores of a CPU. P3D fixed this up after 1 or 2 Hotfixes in V5 and I honestly found V5 one of the most stable platforms in a long time hoewever they are still working with old code.ĭX12 allows an application, if coded properly, better access to much more of the CPU and GPU and infact in some situations, It can allow the Application/System to hand off GPU tasks to the CPU if it sees the CPU is being underworked. DX12 allows a much better access to VRAM however if the application isn’t optimized to unload ‘unused’ data and the end-user is trying to ‘overload’ their settings beyond what their hardware is capable, you’re going to have issues. In short, the way I understand it, DX12 will give you a slight performance increase (higher fps), but at the cost of a massive increase in vram usage.

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