Search code examples
directxdirect3ddirect3d10

direct3D 10 & 11

Is there a big difference (in the way of coding, ...) between the direct3d sdk 10 and 11, like "it was" between direct3d 9 and 10 ?

Thank you

Solution

  • No. Not at all, philosophy and D3D10 concepts stay the same! Most of the difference is that D3D11 introduces some new cool features on top of the D3D10 core:

    • two new shader stages for tesselation purpose
    • compute shader stage for doing GPGPU
    • dynamic shader linkage
    • multithreading (immediate and deferred rendering context)
    • feature levels (for targeting downlevel hardware like D3D10.x and D3D9-class GPUs)
    • byte address and structured buffers
    • new HLSL intrinsics (popcount, bitreversal etc)
    • ...

    Check out the DXSDK !