Microsoft hints DirectX 12 will also be supported by Xbox One

Earlier this week, Microsoft posted up a teaser site for their upcoming reveal of DirectX 12, the next major version of its graphics API that's used in nearly every PC game. Now that site has been updated with a Xbox One logo in addition to the Windows symbol.

 
This change to the teaser site would seem to strongly hint that any games that are made with DirectX 12 will work seamlessly with Microsoft's latest home console. The new API's features could also serve as a graphical boost to games made for the Xbox One. Currently, the console supports DirectX 11.2, which is also used in Windows 8.1.
As we have reported before, previous rumors about DirectX 12 claim that it will enable developers to have low-level access to PC hardware, similar to what AMD has created for Mantle, which launched a few weeks ago as a graphics driver for its Radeon line of GPUs.
DirectX 12 will be the subject of a presentation at the 2014 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 20th. However, we may have to wait until at least spring 2015, the projected launch timeframe for Windows 9, before DirectX 12 becomes available.
Source

Microsoft reveals DirectX 12 for PC, Xbox One and mobile
 

 
As Microsoft promised earlier this month, the company has revealed the first official details on DirectX 12, the next major update to its graphics API, during a session at the Game Developers Conference today in San Francisco.
 
According to the live blog of the event over at PC Perspective, DirectX 12 will be able to work across all of Microsoft's platforms, including Windows, Windows Phone and the Xbox One. Indeed, the company said that DirectX 12-based games will get a performance boost when they are made for Microsoft's latest game console.
 
As rumored, DirectX 12 will allow for developers to get lower level access to hardware and will spread the workload on the CPU and GPU so that their threads are better balanced and as a result increase performance.
 
Full Article

DirectX 12: A game changer for Xbox One
 
This week at Build, Microsoft unveiled their new graphics stack, DirectX 12, which was demonstrated to more than double performance on existing hardware and work on all Microsoft platforms.
Earlier this year, AMD's new Mantle platform demonstrated what was possible if the graphics stack could effectively utilize all the cores on modern CPUs. The result was a massive boost in performance in Mantle enabled games with very little developer effort as shown by Oxide Games and Battlefield 4. The challenge for AMD is that Mantle is currently PC only and restricted to recent AMD video cards. If only there was a graphics stack that supported multi-core processing that worked on all video cards...

Xbox One gets a major upgrade

Meanwhile, Microsoft's Xbox One has been well received but has been criticized for being measurably behind Sony's Playstation 4 in terms of game performance. Microsoft has responded with DirectX 12.  With relatively little effort by developers, upcoming Xbox One games, PC Games and Windows Phone games will see a doubling in graphics performance. 
Suddenly, that Xbox One game that struggled at 720p will be able to reach fantastic performance at 1080p. For developers, this is a game changer.
 
Full Article