Friday, 24 March, 2023

Microsoft’s DirectStorage API allows GPUs to stream data directly from NVMe SSDs

<p>About a year ago, Microsoft announced that one of the most important advancements in consoles will make its way to PCs in the form of DirectStorage API. Now, Microsoft has said that the public SDK for the API is available and we can expect future games to take advantage of the feature. This API will let games load more quickly and be more detailed in general. The API allows data from the NVMe SSD to load directly in the GPU instead of going to the CPU for decompression.</p>