DirectML will enhance DirectX 12 to make games even more beautiful in 2019

The deployment of the Microsoft Windows October Update has officially started tonight, and that’s good news for PC gamers. Simply because it extends DirectX with some additional features, including official support for graphical rendering technologies called Ray Tracing.

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DXR does not come by itself: DirectML will soon arrive in DirectX (more precisely in spring 2019). This solution is designed to infer the use of deep real-time neural networks in video games – whether for display or artificial intelligence behind certain characters. NVIDIA has already introduced techniques to increase image resolution or eliminate noise from a relatively small number of beams. Technically, DirectML only performs inference in already trained neural networks (these are provided by the application in ONNX format, an exchange format defined by large companies such as Microsoft. DirectML enables the implementation of the WinML API, its parent counterpart. WinML is no longer designed to work in any application.

Microsoft has released an update to the upcoming DirectML API, an addition to the current DirectX 12 API that will behave similarly to DXR (DirectX Raytracing). Instead of supporting ray tracing, DirectML has been developed to support the inference in games and other applications so that players can take advantage of the AI features of modern graphics cards.

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In the short term, the AI is likely to be a more popular feature than ray tracing, allowing developers to leverage the capabilities of Machine Learning (ML) to bring even more realistic graphics to game design.

One example is Nvidia’s DLSS technology, which uses deep learning to develop a super-sampling technique that can be used on GeForce RTX graphics cards to deliver a high-resolution gaming experience while significantly improving system performance. In the past, Microsoft has shown that DirectML has performed similarly, so there may soon be a cross-vendor alternative to Nvidia’s DLSS technology.

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DirectML supports all DirectX 12 hardware, just like DXR, you can take advantage of the hardware acceleration capabilities of modern graphics architectures. This allows developers to access hardware features such as Nvidia’s Tensor cores, for example, DXR allows developers to use Turing’s RT cores.

DirectML, DirectML will enhance DirectX 12 to make games even more beautiful in 2019, Optocrypto

Microsoft has already demonstrated the potential of machine learning in video games, with the following image showing what happens when automatic learning is used to enlarge an image up to four times its original resolution (essentially from 1080p to 4K) to produce a sharper final image and less aliasing. The above image is a comparison between Super Sampling ML and bilinear upsampling.

 

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