NVIDIA said this new graphics application programming interface, or API, represents a big step forward for gaming.

DirectX 12 will enable new graphics effects that transform gaming experience – techniques like Volume Tiled Resources, Conservative Raster, Raster Order Views, Tiled Resources, Typed UAV Access, Bindless Textures, Asynchronous Compute, and more. While enormously sophisticated technology, together they will increase image quality and realism while offering increased performance.

Sean Pelletier, Senior Product Manager for Geforce Drivers of NVIDIA, said on the NVIDIA Blog, “We’re demonstrating our commitment to DirectX 12 through our close collaboration with game developers. Together, we’re refining our drivers to take full advantage of the features and functionality of this new graphics API.”

Industry observers expect more than 350 million PCs will run Windows 10 within the first year. Peter Orullian, a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, pointed that Windows 10 is the best Windows for gaming. Because of it makes great new games possible on Windows with technology like DirectX 12 and Xbox Live, it brings Xbox experiences to Windows 10 PCs in ways that are meaningful to PC gamers.