Microsoft has detailed a new DirectX 12 API feature that can provide an increase in game performance by using integrated GPUs alongside dedicated graphics cards.

The feature, called Multiadapter, provides the option to draw resources from a motherboard's integrated GPU as well as the standalone graphics card at the same time.

"Before Windows 10 and DirectX 12, all the performance potential from the second GPU goes unused," Microsoft’s Andrew Yeung explained on the .