Nvidia teams up with Microsoft to put neural shading into DirectX, giving devs access to AI tensor cores

Microsoft will enabled neural shading and cooperative vectors in a DirectX preview this April. This will allow for better use of AI features mixed with shaders in games, and while it may be exclusive to Nvidia at first, we expect AMD and Intel GPUs to add support later.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-teams-up-with-microsoft-to-put-neural-shading-into-directx-giving-devs-access-to-ai-tensor-cores

Created 1mo | Mar 13, 2025, 7:30:02 PM


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