

The RTX 4090 is Nvidia's first RTX 40-Series GPU operating on the Ada Lovelace GPU architecture. This driver update is also the first update supporting Nvidia's all-new GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, and is required to run the new flagship card (if you're planning on buying one today). Nvidia's results are coming from a test bed consisting of an RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3070 Ti, and RTX 3060 Ti paired to a Core i9-12900K processor with 32GB of RAM. The rest of these optimizations will work with any RTX graphics card, so it's a free upgrade for anyone packing an RTX GPU - but your mileage will vary based on your system configuration. Nevertheless, this performance improvement isn't shown on some benchmarks because, depending on the graphics card installed on the PC, DirectX 11 may behave better than the most recent version.According to Nvidia, these DX12 optimizations include shader compilation optimizations, reduction of CPU overhead, and resizable bar profiles for Forza Horizon 5 and F1 22 (the last of which only applies to resizable bar supported GPUs - RTX 30 series and newer). In other words, it's easier to identify an error and for the user to notify it and try to fix it. Improved debugging of both commands and information.Correction of flaws that prevented us from knowing the reason why the GPU failed interpreting instructions.CPU and GPU workloads processed separately to gain in performance.These are the main updates that come along in this version:


With the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, DirectX 12 is already preinstalled.ĭX12 is fully compatible with graphics cards supported by DX11. In other words, if you need to get hold of them for Windows 8.1, Windows 7 o Windows Vista (let's hope you've already got rid of XP), you can download DirectX 9, DirectX 10 or DirectX 11. Until the arrival of Windows 10, all the versions of this pack of APIs could be downloaded as a standalone and weren't included in the operating system by default. Thanks to the latter, Windows has become a great gaming platform, being able to put a fight up against video consoles and even beat them in terms of performance and yield. Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft has developed subsequent versions of DirectX, its collection of APIs aimed at simplifying the most complex multimedia development tasks, especially those relative to video game coding.
