The screen flickered.
In the red corner: , the veteran. Solid. Predictable. He’d been rendering blockbuster games for a decade. He wore a patchy driver suit, had a slight stutter when loading textures, but never, ever crashed.
DX12 tried to do the same, but his command list was too clever by half. He attempted to alias resources, mismatched the resource states, and—with three milliseconds left—called ExecuteIndirect on a null pipeline. the finals dx11 vs dx12
“It’s a feature ,” DX12 hissed, sweating polygons.
The crowd gasped. The holographic referee flickered. Ada raised DX11’s arm. The screen flickered
DX12 looked up. “Then why do they keep trying to replace you?”
The gong struck. A million triangles appeared in the void. Predictable
“You’ve got power, kid. More than me. But power without predictability is just a particle effect waiting to explode.”