DirectCompute

Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. DirectCompute is part of the Microsoft DirectX collection of APIs and was initially released with the DirectX 11 API but runs on both DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 graphics processing units.^[1][2] The DirectCompute architecture shares a range of computational interfaces with its competitors - the Khronos Group's Open Computing Language (OpenCL) and NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA).

See also

• OpenCL
• CUDA
• GPGPU

References

1. ^ DirectCompute Support on NVIDIA's CUDA Architecture GPUs
2. ^ Nigel Dessau, senior VP and CMO at AMD, about DirectCompute

External links

• Compute Shader Overview
• Example of DirectCompute for Next Generation Game Effects
• DirectCompute for AMD
• Cuda DirectCompute for NVIDIA
• AMD and CyberLink announcement about Accelerated Video Applications with Windows 7 DirectX 11 DirectCompute
• DirectCompute Benchmark