Sapphire Radeon R7 250 2GB DDR3 512SP EDITION HDMI/DVI-D/VGA (UEFI) PCI-Express Graphics Card; DirectX 12 is a new, "console-like" graphics API from Microsoft that empowers game developers with more direct and obvious control of PC hardware. This direct or "explicit" control better exposes the hardware resources of AMD Radeon GPUs to yield higher hardware throughput and, ultimately, more performance for users. To put it simply: much more efficient hardware through smarter software! At the discretion of a game developer, this superior efficiency can be spent on higher frame rates, lower latency (VR), lower power consumption, better image quality, or some calculated balance of all four. In any scenario, gamers stand to benefit greatly from choosing AMD hardware to run their favorite DirectX 12 game.