Direct3D

Direct3D - API used in Microsoft DirectX for 3D rendering. This software is the 239^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 181^st most popular software in English Wikipedia. Article “Direct3D” in English Wikipedia has 77.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 216 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 8.59 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Direct3D”, its content was written by 330 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 654 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Direct3D is on the 181^st place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 239^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 544 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1940 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3144 in June 2015
• Global: #10960 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17400 in June 2008
• Global: #22417 in June 2008

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Direct3D		77.2725
2	Estonian (et) Direct3D		73.7266
3	Arabic (ar) دايركت ثري دي		41.3473
4	Catalan (ca) Direct3D		40.5493
5	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		40.2011
6	Dutch (nl) Direct3D		39.6224
7	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		37.1517
8	Czech (cs) Direct3D		23.9147
9	Spanish (es) Direct3D		21.3837
10	French (fr) Direct3D		14.9006

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct3D" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Direct3D		3 345 836
2	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		376 087
3	Spanish (es) Direct3D		237 223
4	German (de) Direct3D		185 019
5	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		164 426
6	French (fr) Direct3D		112 287
7	Polish (pl) Direct3D		98 259
8	Portuguese (pt) Direct3D		81 637
9	Korean (ko) Direct3D		49 914
10	Czech (cs) Direct3D		24 698

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Direct3D" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Direct3D		4 987
2	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		281
3	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		274
4	French (fr) Direct3D		166
5	Spanish (es) Direct3D		80
6	German (de) Direct3D		72
7	Polish (pl) Direct3D		43
8	Portuguese (pt) Direct3D		40
9	Korean (ko) Direct3D		32
10	Czech (cs) Direct3D		28

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Direct3D" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Direct3D		330
2	German (de) Direct3D		62
3	French (fr) Direct3D		57
4	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		33
5	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		30
6	Spanish (es) Direct3D		24
7	Dutch (nl) Direct3D		24
8	Polish (pl) Direct3D		18
9	Portuguese (pt) Direct3D		16
10	Korean (ko) Direct3D		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Direct3D" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Dutch (nl) Direct3D		2
2	Arabic (ar) دايركت ثري دي		1
3	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		1
4	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		1
5	Catalan (ca) Direct3D		0
6	Czech (cs) Direct3D		0
7	German (de) Direct3D		0
8	English (en) Direct3D		0
9	Spanish (es) Direct3D		0
10	Estonian (et) Direct3D		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Direct3D" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Direct3D		544
2	Japanese (ja) Direct3D		256
3	Korean (ko) Direct3D		243
4	Chinese (zh) Direct3D		214
5	Portuguese (pt) Direct3D		117
6	French (fr) Direct3D		116
7	Spanish (es) Direct3D		107
8	German (de) Direct3D		75
9	Polish (pl) Direct3D		56
10	Arabic (ar) دايركت ثري دي		34

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دايركت ثري دي
ca	Catalan Direct3D
cs	Czech Direct3D
de	German Direct3D
en	English Direct3D
es	Spanish Direct3D
et	Estonian Direct3D
eu	Basque Direct3D
fa	Persian دایرکت‌تری‌دی
fr	French Direct3D
ja	Japanese Direct3D
ko	Korean Direct3D
nl	Dutch Direct3D
pl	Polish Direct3D
pt	Portuguese Direct3D
sk	Slovak Direct3D
tr	Turkish Direct3D
zh	Chinese Direct3D

Best Rank

English: #17400 06.2008

Global: #22417 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #3144 06.2015

Global: #10960 01.2003

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