AMD: No DirectX 12, Battlefield 4 part of next bundle

Posted on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 11:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

In an interview with German tech site Heise, AMD vice president of global channel sales, Roy Taylor, revealed that he doesn't believe that there will be a DirectX 12 API, at least not so far as the company can see.

Neither Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, nor the rumored Windows "Blue" 8.1, could ship with a newer DirectX version. Taylor was responding to a question from Heise about next-generation GPUs and technologies they could be built around, to which he replied that normally, new DirectX versions stimulate introduction of new GPU architectures, but there won't be a DirectX 12, and so the company's next-generation GPUs will integrate other technologies.

Taylor also revealed that Battlefield 4 could be part of an upcoming Never Settle gaming bundle.

Source: TPU

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