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hlsl-shader-model-6-0-features-for-direct3d-12.md

For earlier shader models, HLSL programming exposes only a single thread of execution. New wave-level operations are provided, starting with model 6.0, to explicitly take advantage of the parallelism ...
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Shader Model 6

As of the June 2021 release, DirectX Tool Kit for DX12 defaults to using Shader Model 6 for VS 2019 projects. As of the October 2021 release, the VS 2017 projects use Shader Model 6. The ...