Windows Display Driver Model
E193870
Windows Display Driver Model is Microsoft’s modern graphics driver architecture for Windows that enables advanced visual effects, improved stability, and better GPU resource management.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1720018 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Windows Display Driver Model Context triple: [Desktop Window Manager, usesAPI, Windows Display Driver Model]
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DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation is a Microsoft UI framework for building rich, desktop client applications on Windows using XAML and .NET.
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Metal graphics API
Metal graphics API is Apple’s low-level, high-performance framework for 3D graphics and GPU-accelerated computing on its devices.
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Windows Aero
Windows Aero is a graphical user interface and design language introduced by Microsoft that features translucent window borders, animations, and visual effects to enhance the look and feel of the Windows operating system.
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AMD Radeon integrated graphics
AMD Radeon integrated graphics are built-in GPU solutions from AMD that provide capable everyday and entry-level gaming graphics performance without requiring a separate dedicated graphics card.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Windows Display Driver Model Target entity description: Windows Display Driver Model is Microsoft’s modern graphics driver architecture for Windows that enables advanced visual effects, improved stability, and better GPU resource management.
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A.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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B.
Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation is a Microsoft UI framework for building rich, desktop client applications on Windows using XAML and .NET.
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C.
Metal graphics API
Metal graphics API is Apple’s low-level, high-performance framework for 3D graphics and GPU-accelerated computing on its devices.
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D.
Windows Aero
Windows Aero is a graphical user interface and design language introduced by Microsoft that features translucent window borders, animations, and visual effects to enhance the look and feel of the Windows operating system.
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E.
AMD Radeon integrated graphics
AMD Radeon integrated graphics are built-in GPU solutions from AMD that provide capable everyday and entry-level gaming graphics performance without requiring a separate dedicated graphics card.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows component
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graphics driver architecture ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Windows Display Driver Model
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WDDM
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| componentOf |
Windows Display Driver Model
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Windows graphics subsystem
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| designGoal |
better GPU resource management
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improved graphics stability ⓘ isolation of graphics drivers from kernel crashes ⓘ support for advanced visual effects ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| enablesFeature |
Aero Glass visual effects
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Desktop Window Manager ⓘ
surface form:
Desktop Window Manager composition
Direct3D 10 support ⓘ Direct3D 11 support ⓘ Direct3D 12 support ⓘ GPU memory virtualization ⓘ GPU preemption ⓘ GPU scheduling ⓘ Timeout Detection and Recovery ⓘ hardware-accelerated desktop composition ⓘ improved multi-monitor support ⓘ virtual GPU support in RemoteFX (historical) ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
GPU scheduler
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kernel-mode display driver ⓘ user-mode display driver ⓘ video memory manager ⓘ |
| introducedInVersion | Windows Vista ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
Windows
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surface form:
Microsoft Windows
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| replaces |
Windows Display Driver Model
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Windows 2000 Display Driver Model
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| supportsOperatingSystem |
Windows 10
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Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 8.1 ⓘ Windows Vista ⓘ |
| usedBy |
GPU vendors
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display driver developers ⓘ |
| version |
WDDM 1.0
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Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 1.1
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 1.2
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 1.3
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.0
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.1
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.2
WDDM 2.3 ⓘ Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.4
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.5
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.6
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 2.7
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 3.0
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 3.1
Windows Display Driver Model self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WDDM 3.2
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Windows Display Driver Model Description of subject: Windows Display Driver Model is Microsoft’s modern graphics driver architecture for Windows that enables advanced visual effects, improved stability, and better GPU resource management.
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