Microsoft will unveil Direct X 12 at upcoming GDC

For decades now, Microsoft’s DirectX API has been successfully keeping gamers and developers alike away from Mac and Linux operating systems. And now, a new chapter in the story is set to unfold, even as the company has announced that it will be showcasing DirectX 12 at the forthcoming Game Developers Conference that’s slated to be held from March 17 to 21 in San Francisco, California.

Gamespot reports that DirectX 12 will feature in a GDC presentation at 10:00 PST on the day, 'DirectX: Evolving Microsoft's Graphics Platform', which will be led by Windows graphics development manager Anju Gosalia.

Another session, dubbed Direct3D Futures, will discuss “future improvements in Direct3D that will allow developers an unprecedented level of hardware control and reduced CPU rendering overhead across a broad ecosystem of hardware.” In short, it sounds like DirectX 12 will copy a lot of the functionality that’s present in AMD’s Mantle API. There might be a lot more to DirectX 12, but we simply won’t know until March 20.