The descriptors are roughly 32–64 bytes in size and hold information like texture dimensions, format, and layout.ĭescriptors are stored in a descriptor heap, which represents a sequence of structures in memory.Ī descriptor table holds offsets into this descriptor heap. These descriptors or resource views can be considered a structure (also called a block) that is consumed by the GPU front end. DirectX 12 offers the following descriptors, previously named “resource views” in DirectX 11: DirectX 12 SDK comes with Visual StudioĪ descriptor is a block of data that describes an object to the GPU, in a GPU-specific opaque format.

To develop games with DirectX 12, you need the following tools: This article describes how to pick different resource binding mechanisms to run an application efficiently on specific Intel’s GPUs. The previous article “ Introduction to Resource Binding in Microsoft DirectX* 12” introduced the new resource binding methods in DirectX 12 and concluded that with all these choices, the challenge is to pick the most desirable binding mechanism for the target GPU, types of resources, and their frequency of update.

With the release of Windows* 10 on Jand the release of the 6th generation Intel® Core™ processor family (code-name Skylake), we can now look closer into resource binding specifically for Intel® platforms.

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