Nvidia’s GTX 400 and 500 Series graphics cards support DirectX 12

With the launch of Windows 10 two years ago, Microsoft introduced support for the DirectX 12 graphics interface. One of the major advantages over previous versions is better opportunities for developers to use more processor cores to draw graphics, which should lead to better performance .

For Nvidia users, support for DirectX 12 has been limited to users with 600-series graphics cards or later. Nvidia has previously promised support for this also on older graphics cards, something that is now implemented with driver version 384.76. The change was discovered by users on Guru3D’s forums and includes support for Fermi-based graphics cards in the GTX 400 and 500 series.

Another change that has not been documented by Nvidia themselves is the ability to stream material from Netflix in 4K UHD resolution without a processor from Intel’s Kaby Lake family. This has previously been limited to trial versions of Windows, but users now state that this works with Windows 10 Creators Update and a GTX 1000 series graphics card as well as an HDCP 2.2 compatible screen.