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Direct3D 10
22 related topics
Direct3D 11
25 related topics
Direct3D 2.0 and 3.0
11 related topics
Related tools
11 related topics
Key facts & relationships
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- Developer
- Microsoft
- License
- Proprietary
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded, Xbox system software
- Platform
- x86, ARM
- Release
- June 2, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-06-02)
- Stable release
- 12.0 Beta 3 / January 13, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-01-13)
Topics to explore
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Overview
- API Application programming interface
- Microsoft Windows
- DirectX
- 3D computer graphics
- Hardware acceleration
- Graphics card
- Rendering pipeline
- Z-buffering
- Stencil buffering Stencil buffer
- Spatial anti-aliasing
- Alpha blending Alpha compositing
- Mipmapping Mipmap
- Clipping Clipping (computer graphics)
- Culling Hidden-surface determination
- Multitexturing Texture mapping
- HLSL
- Shaders
- Overlay Video overlay
- Sprites Sprite (computer graphics)
- DirectDraw
- 2D graphics 2D computer graphics
- Emulation Emulator
- Pixel shaders Pixel shader
- Video card
- Reference Rasterizer
- WARP Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows 95
- Vector graphics
Direct3D 2.0 and 3.0
- Reality Lab
- Immediate mode Immediate mode (computer graphics)
- Retained mode
- COM Component Object Model
- Scene graph
- Lego Island
- Lego Rock Raiders Lego Rock Raiders (video game)
- 3dfx
- Glide Glide API
- Talisman Microsoft Talisman
- Tiled rendering
Direct3D 6.0
- Geometry pipelines Geometry pipeline
- X87
- SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions
- 3DNow!
- S3 texture compression S3TC
- Bump mapping
- Windows logo WHQL Testing
- DirectMusic
- Intel Pentium III
Direct3D 7.0
- .dds DirectDraw Surface
- Transform and lighting
- GeForce 256
Direct3D 8.0
- Display driver Device driver
- Compiled
- Vertex shaders
- Pixel shaders
- Fog Distance fog
Direct3D 9
Direct3D 10
- Shader model
- Vertex Vertex shader
- Geometry shader
- Company of Heroes
- Crysis
- Graphics pipeline
- Geometry shaders
- Mesh Polygon mesh
- Predicated rendering
- Instancing 2.0 Geometry instancing
- SP1 Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Floating point
- Feature levels Direct3D
- Radeon HD 3000 series Radeon R600
- Radeon HD 4000 series Radeon R700
- ATI ATI (brand)
- Chrome 430/440GT S3 Chrome
- S3 Graphics
- GeForce 200 series
- Nvidia
- Intel
- Intel HD Graphics
Direct3D 11
- Nvision
- Drivers Device Driver Interface
- Tessellation Tessellation (computer graphics)
- Order independent transparency
- PowerVR
- Multithreaded Thread (computer science)
- Stream processing
- OpenCL
- CUDA
- ATI Stream
- Texture cache
- Release Candidate
- Direct2D
- DirectWrite
- WIC Windows Imaging Component
- DXGI DirectX Graphics Infrastructure
- Tracing Tracing (software)
- Shadow buffer
- Quad buffering
- Stereoscopic
- Page tables Page table
- Direct3D 11.X Direct3D 11.X?action=edit&redlink=1
- Xbox One
- Unified Memory Access (UMA) Uniform memory access
- ST 2084 SMPTE ST 2084
Direct3D 12
- Mantle Mantle (API)
- Swizzled resources Swizzled textures
- Compressed resources Compressed textures
- Blend modes Blend mode
- HDR10
- Variable refresh rates Variable refresh rate
- DXIL DirectX Intermediate Language
- NPUs Neural Processing Unit
- Tensor shaders Tensor shader
- DirectStorage
Architecture
- GDI Graphics Device Interface
- Swap Chains Swap Chain
- Mono Monochrome
- RGB RGB color model
- Hardware abstraction layer
- SDK Software development kit
- Back buffer Double buffering
- Pool Memory pool
- Color depth
- Flag Flag (computing)
Pipeline
- Hull-Shader Hull shader?action=edit&redlink=1
- Domain-Shader Domain shader?action=edit&redlink=1
Feature levels
Direct3D Mobile
Alternative implementations
Related tools
- Vectors Euclidean vector
- Matrices Matrix (mathematics)
- Projection Projection (mathematics)
- Spline interpolations Spline interpolation
- Skeletal animation
- Meshes Mesh
- Precomputed radiance transfer
- Particle systems Particle system
- Barycentric coordinates Barycentric coordinates (mathematics)
- Bounding box
- Dynamic link library
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Direct3D
Nodes193
Edges192
Triples435
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010363
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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Direct3D
Top relations
related to Alternative implementations · 29
Direct3D → An, D7VK, D8VK, D9VK, Direct3D API, Direct3D APIs, DX, DXVK, Gallium Nine, It, It's, July, Linux, Mesa, On December, OpenGL, Proton/Steam, Steam, Steam/Proton, The
related to overview · 29
Direct3D → API, Clipping, Compute, DirectX, DirectX RaytracingDirect3D, DXVA, GPGPU, Hardware Transformation, Lighting, ME, MultitexturingDirect3D, Multithreaded, Pixel Shader, Rendering, Shader Model, SP1, Stereoscopic, TCL/T, Tessellation, Tiled
related to Direct3D 2.0 and 3.0 · 25
Direct3D → API, Both, CAD, COM, DirectDraw, DirectX, DirectX APIs, Doug Rabson, February, Game, In, June, Kate Seekings, Lego Island, Lego Rock Raiders, Like, Microsoft, Only, Reality Lab, RenderMorphics
related to Pipeline · 24
Direct3D → API, Can, Converts, Determines, Domain-Shader, Geometry Shader, Given, Hull-Shader, Input-Assembler, Merges, Output-Merger, Performs, Pixel Shader, Processes, Rasterizer, Reads, Stream-Output, Subdivides, Tessellator, The
related to Direct3D 11 · 20
Direct3D → AMD, API, August, Computex, DirectX, DirectX SDK, DirectX11, Feature, Gamefest, It, July, June, Level, November, Nvision, SDK, Technical Preview, The Direct3D, There, Windows
related to Direct3D 11.1 · 20
Direct3D → API, Developer Preview, DXGI, GPUs, HLSL, Intel HD Graphics, Preliminary, September, Session, SRVs, Texture2D, The, The Direct3D, TIR, UAVs, Unordered Access Views, WARP, WDDM, Windows, Windows SDK
related to Direct3D 11.0 · 19
Direct3D → ATI Stream, CPUsCompute, Depth Bias, DrawIndirect, Dynamic, Gather4, HDR, HLSL Shader Model, LDR, Mandatory, MSAA, Nvidia CUDA, OpenCL, R32G32B32A32, Shader Model, Support, Tessellation, Tessellation Shaders, WDDM
related to Direct3D 5.0 · 19
Direct3D → API, APIs, August, Besides, Direct3D Immediate Mode, DirectDraw, DirectX, DrawPrimitive, DrawPrimitive API, February, Glide, In December, London-based RenderMorphics, OpenGL, Redmond, Retained Mode, SetRenderTarget, The, The Redmond
related to Direct3D 10.0 · 17
Direct3D → API, CPU, FFTs, Fixed, Geometry, GPU, HLSL, IEEE-compliant, Instancing, It, New, Predicated, Texture, The, These, This, Unified
related to Direct3D 10.1 · 17
Direct3D → CopyResource, DirectX SDK, Features, Location, March, Microsoft, MSAA, MultisampleEnable, Multisampling, November, Texture Sampling, Texture2DArrays, TextureCubeArrays, The, This, Windows Vista SP1, Zero-area
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
hardware api support directx windows graphics features 10 11 shader rendering new 3d 12 feature texture version used microsoft shaders
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | Developer | Microsoft | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | License | Proprietary | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows Embedded, Xbox system software | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Platform | x86, ARM | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Release | June 2, 1996; 30 years ago (1996-06-02) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Stable release | 12.0 Beta 3 / January 13, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-01-13) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Type | 3D computer graphics API | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | Website | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d | 1.00 | infobox |
| Direct3D | is a | graphics application programming interface | 0.90 | text |
| Direct3D | is a | Immediate mode graphics API | 0.90 | text |
| 3dfx's Glide.From the beginning | instance of | but to compete more effectively with other proprietary APIs | 0.80 | text |
| the immediate mode also supported Talisman's tiled rendering with the BeginScene/EndScene methods of the IDirect3DDevice interface | instance of | but to compete more effectively with other proprietary APIs | 0.80 | text |
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