The async compute Shaders allows shaders(tasks) already sent to the queues to be able to run asynchronously, in the manner described by the driver/hw implementation. To NOT be confused with the async compute at the cpu level as described here which allows the commands/tasks to be sent asynchronously to the gpu queues (without having to wait for a response).

If you need to develop for more than Windows, OpenGL. OpenGL wasnt meant for gaming back then) used a left-handed coordinate system. One major difference is that OpenGL is cross-platform, and DirectX is available only on Windows and XBox. 3dfx Interactives Glide (one of DirectXs competitors back in the day. It is a hardware capability introduced by GCN cards (hopefully to be added through software/drivers for the nvidia cards) that allows tasks/shaders sent to gpu to be run asynchronously. It was first released in 1995, when the world had much more than Nvidia and ATI, DirectX vs OpenGL. None of the AMD cards have hw support for all feature levels and implementations like Raster Ordered Views and Conservative Rasterisation.Īnd while asynchronous compute by itself is a cool feature, it is not part of the core DirectX 12 api specification and is not part of any feature level as you can see here and here. When they say the 9xx have full DX12 support they mean the cards have hw support to all feature levels of Directx 12 API and they do.

Directx 12 vs opengl 4.4