What does it mean when a motherboard does not support DirectX 12?

[darcymccracken]

Hi,

 

I am looking to build my first PC and was looking at the MSI z370 tomahawk motherboard, however I saw that it does not feature DirectX 12. What does this mean? Is this good or bad?

 

 

[deXxterlab97]

It is something you should not care for if you are using a dedicated graphics card

[Jurrunio]

DX 12 support depends on the GPU, which could be integrated in the CPU or in the graphics card. You also need Windows 10.

[AT0MAC]

i don't really seem to find the same information as you, is it not this board or am i mistaken?

either im not awake or i can't find anywere on msis product specs that the board should have anything to do with direct x.

if you have found it somewhere it could be because msi states that it will support 8th gen celeron cpus, not sure but there might be variants of those that dont support dx12 and then msi have stated it like unsupported instead of giving false hope

 

but like the rest have said, as long as you just get a separate newer gpu and windows 10 then you are golden

[Intelfreak]

Directx 12 support has nothing to do with motherboard or PCI express for that matter and neither CPU.

 

I think where ever you have read it, they mean DX12 is not supported if you are using the CPU´s integrated GPU. For DX12 support you need a stand alone GPU from Nvidia or AMD with DX12 support. like Nvidia 900 or 1000 series card or AMD card like the RX 570 or vega cards.

 

What decides a DX12 ready system is OS/windows (only windows 10 has DX 12 support of all windows versions), graphics card driver and the graphics cards it self and nothing else. Else how can i have DX12 on my old X58 system that came out way before DX12 where even a thing. We where still on DX10 then i first got my X58 system.