While Microsoft's Mike Ybarra clearly said at recent Microsoft Windows 10 event that you will need a new GPU in order to get a full potential of DirectX 12, it appears that he was only talking about some certain features, while existing GPUs will work just fine with DirectX 12.


During its Microsoft Windows 10 event, Mike Ybarra noted that that “There will be DX 11.1 cards that take advantage of a lot of the driver and software tech that we’re bringing in Windows 10, but if you want the full benefits of DX12, you’re going to need a DX12 card,” but now, both Microsoft and Nvidia have released further statements that clarify some of the details regarding DirectX 12 and current, as well as future GPUs.

Microsoft released a short statements saying that "While we are not yet ready to detail everything related to DirectX12, we can share that we are working closely with all of our hardware partners to help ensure that most modern PC gaming hardware will work well with DirectX12, including; NVIDIA’s Maxwell, Kepler and Fermi-based GPUs, Intel’s 4th generation (and newer) Core processors and AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) based GPUs. We’ll have more to share about DirectX12 at GDC in March."

In an interview with Polygon, Microsoft said that DirectX 12 demo was running on DirectX 11 graphics card which suggest that support for current and older graphics cards will not be lacking and that actual CPU improvements seen during the demo was actually on a DirectX 11 graphics card.



Source: VG247.com.