Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
I thought new Consoles were mainly going to be made with AMD APU's. - which will be DX11
Will be interesting when they come out.
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.
from here

GPUs are both DX and openGL capable, however, only Microsoft platforms use the directX capability, the rest uses openGL, probably to not pay licensing fees.