Last month we wrote about the possibility that Mantle and DirectX 12 could seriously boost the performance of multi-GPU systems. Now it seems the days of Nvidia’s SLI and AMD’s CrossFire technologies ...

We're seeing excitement build up from the Vulkan API release 1.4.340, with a new extension that should eventually improve ...

Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

Red Dead Redemption 2 : DirectX 12 vs Vulkan l 1440p l System: Windows 10 Pro Intel i9 9900k 3.6GHz Asus rog Strix Z390-F Gaming GeForce rtx 2080 8GB 16Gb ram 3600Mhz ...

The most successful game in crowdfunding history is giving up on Microsoft’s DirectX graphics platform to go all-in on Vulkan. Cloud Imperium Games, the developers of Star Citizen, recently said on ...

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) was one of the early companies that announced DirectX 12 support, but the company has changed its mind on that API. Instead of using Microsoft's DX12, Star Citizen will use ...

If you’re rocking with an Nvidia graphics card, then the best choice for you to run Baldur’s Gate 3 with will be DirectX 11. This API is much more optimized for Nvidia cards than Vulkan. And while ...

Over the weekend Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), developer of Star Citizen, has signalled an important change in the rendering API used for the game on Windows systems. A year ago CIG stated that it ...

You may have noticed while you're launching BG3 in the Larian Launcher that you're given a choice on whether or not to launch the game using Vulkan or DirectX 11. If you're unsure what these mean or ...

What is a graphics API? API is short for application programming interface. When it comes to video games on the PC, developers almost always use one of the popular APIs to bring the games to life on ...