direct3D 10 & 11

Question

Is there a big difference (in the way of coding, ...) between the direct3d sdk 10 and 11, like "it was" between direct3d 9 and 10 ?

Thank you

Answer 1

No. Not at all, philosophy and D3D10 concepts stay the same! Most of the difference is that D3D11 introduces some new cool features on top of the D3D10 core:

• two new shader stages for tesselation purpose
• compute shader stage for doing GPGPU
• dynamic shader linkage
• multithreading (immediate and deferred rendering context)
• feature levels (for targeting downlevel hardware like D3D10.x and D3D9-class GPUs)
• byte address and structured buffers
• new HLSL intrinsics (popcount, bitreversal etc)
• ...

Check out the DXSDK !