In this section Topicĭiscusses Direct3D in more depth, different application models, different versions, rendering, and compute.ĭirect3D 12 provides an API and platform that allows your application to take advantage of the graphics and computing capabilities of PCs equipped with one or more Direct3D 12-compatible GPUs. See the content below for more information.įor info about obtaining and installing Direct3D, see Direct3D 12 programming environment setup.
Direct3D is a low-level API for drawing primitives with the rendering pipeline, or for performing parallel operations with the compute shader.
