We only just reported that DirectX 12 will be providing CPU-bound games with up to 50% more performance, but the new version of Microsoft's API will be completely exclusive to Windows 10.

DirectX 12 is one of the key features Microsoft hopes will woo PC gamers—a stronghold of the PC ecosystem, but one largely encamped in Windows 7—towards Windows 10.

DirectX 12 aims to reduce CPU bottlenecks to deliver better performance on the PC hardware you already own, and its coming with Windows 10.

As Windows 10 is a completely free upgrade to anyone who does so in the first year, Microsoft has no reason to backport DirectX 12 to Windows 8.1 or earlier.

A new rumor about DirectX 12, the upcoming graphics API from Microsoft that will be include with the launch of Windows 10, suggests that it will allow graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD to be ...

Microsoft is set to launch Windows 10 in mid-2015, although you can already download a Technical Preview sans DirectX 12.