Matt Sandy, a Direct3D program manager at Microsoft, said in a March 20 blog post that DirectX 12 “introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX ...

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DirectX contains Direct3D which is the primary graphics handling portion of DirectX. It is associated with DirectX API, and it helps to render 2D graphics in any program on a Windows computer.