DX12

The Peak-Performance-Percentage Analysis Method for Optimizing Any GPU Workload

Game Development, DX11, DX12, GameWorks, HBAO+, Nsight Graphics, Nsight Visual Studio Edition, OpenGL

Nadeem Mohammad, posted Sep 28 2018

Figuring out how to reduce the GPU frame time of a rendering application on PC is challenging for even the most experienced PC game developers.

SetStablePowerState.exe: Disabling GPU Boost on Windows 10 for more deterministic timestamp queries on NVIDIA GPUs

GameWorks, GameWorks Expert Developer, DX11, DX12, OpenGL, Vulkan

Louis Bavoil, posted Sep 14 2016

Authors: Louis Bavoil and Iain Cantlay

Reading Between The Threads: Shader Intrinsics

GameWorks, GameWorks Expert Developer, DX11, DX12, Vulkan, OpenGL, nvapi, DesignWorks

Mathias Schott, posted Jul 29 2016

When writing compute shaders, it’s often necessary to communicate values between threads.

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

GameWorks, GameWorks Expert Developer, DX11, DX12, nvapi

Alexey Panteleev, posted Jul 29 2016

There are some very useful "intrinsic" functions in the NVIDIA GPU instruction set that are not included in standard graphics APIs.

DX12 Do's & Don'ts Updated

DX12, GameWorks, GameWorks Expert Developer

Holger Gruen, posted Mar 01 2016

Since our last update to the DX12 Do’s & Don’ts we have learned and seen a lot more DX12 games and found that we can be more specific about our advice to developers.

DirectX™ 12 Do’s and Don’ts

GameWorks, GameWorks Expert Developer, DX12

Holger Gruen, posted Sep 22 2015

If you have started developing or porting games that use DX12, you have probably realized that it is, in many ways a very different beast when compared to DX11. Lots of responsibility is suddenly being placed on your shoulders.