Microsoft Partners with GPU Manufacturers to Bring “Groundbreaking Performance Improvements” with DirectX Raytracing 1.2

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Microsoft announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at GDC 2025, revealing the latest update co-developed with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm.

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[Brent_Justice]

I find these kinda things very cool, I like that RT Shader Re-Ordering is finally part of the spec, NVIDIA introduced that a while ago in hardware, but it is only being added now to the direct-x pipeline. It sounds like some good improvements to Path Tracing, I'm looking forward to seeing what Neural rendering technologies will do for RT, especially denoising.

 

[Grimlakin]

That and making it part.of the standard makes it more likely everyone will get.onboard with it.