You may have mistaken Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system as a gussied up and streamlined version of their previous operating systems but you’d be ingoring the changes under the hood that are set to make it one of the most important consumer OS ever.

Tech ARP has a look at what changes are in store for Direct3D and DirectX 11 in general. Here’s a peek:

Direct3D 10-Level-9 is a specialized driver for the Direct3D 10 runtime. Therefore, game developers get the higher performance of the Direct3D 10 runtime (versus the Direct3D 9 runtime) while still targeting the Direct3D 9 hardware.

It’ll probably go over many people’s heads but it’s exciting stuff knowing that performance will actually improve this time around and GPGPU applications may finally gain some traction on the desktop.