AMD Demos First DirectX 11 GPU
Posted 06/03/09 at 09:47:14 AM by Paul Lilly
During a press conference at Computex, AMD gave the world's first official DirectX 11 GPU demonstration, saying the new API will debut before the end of 2009. When it does, AMD promised it would beat the competition to the punch and "deliver DirectX 11 first."
"Games and other applications are about to get a lot better as a result of AMD's new graphics hardware and DirectX 11," AMD stated in a press release. "DirectX 11 features such as tessellation will bring consumers higher quality, superior performing games making use of 6th generation AMD technology."
AMD also said its DX11-based videocards will improve Windows 7 performance in a wide number of applications and in a way that's "completely transparent to users," such as accelerating the conversion of video playback on portable media players.
Catch the full press release here.

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GPU Cards,
Submitted by Sentinel137 on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 10:23am
I Know Nvidia has something upthere sleave's, And if one is smart they would wait it out till about the end of the year before buying any cards and any thing else, Like mother boards and so on, The New OS system is just around the corner here, And hardware makers are goin to be releasing new stuff to run it, Yeah I7 hardware that is out today are first Gen platforms, Now the kinks will be work out and second Gen stuff will be hitting of by the end of summer in to fall, AMD is keeping pace and they are cool people that makes good hardware for the people that do not make sums of money and still wants to have good hardware in there box, It will take some time before games will be made that will be able to use DX-11 api anyway, Look what happen to DX-10, only a hand full of game where make to use that API, Yes the #7 OS system will use it to run but will be backwards compatible for those that do not have the hardware to run it,,
Hopefully...
Submitted by Devo85x on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 7:23am
Hopefully Nvidia will have a response with a good GPU so AMD wont be able to charge you too much, ether way though, I wont be able to be an early adopter since I just spend $500 on 2 GTX 260s (yes i preordered the first one and bought the 2nd last christmas, I know they are worth less now) and I dont exactly have a job so I cant afford anything that will support DX11 when it is available :(
you probably could, I have a
Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 8:57am
you probably could, I have a radeon 2400, and it supports DX 10
competition
Submitted by MeTo on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 7:22am
Competition is good AMD gained market share and made nVidia lower it's prices. Let them slug it out.
Linux Mint,Duel boot/Vista,AMD Athlon+ x2 5600,3 Gig ram,500 Gig HDD,ATI 1300 Video.
No one cares about your specs.
Submitted by foamcup on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 8:06am
Dual, not duel. Dumbass.
Here you go
Submitted by MeTo on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 9:04am
Smart alic.
Linux Mint,Dual boot/Vista,AMD Athlon+ x2 5600,3 Gig ram,500 Gig HDD,ATI 1300 Video.
and im sure your shit
Submitted by dracx619 on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 8:17am
and im sure your shit doesn't stink right? get over yourself dude
hahahahahahaha
Submitted by Netram on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 8:47am
hahahahahahaha
"would beat the competition
Submitted by almax on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 7:11am
"would beat the competition to the punch"
Yeah, because that strategy worked so well with DX10.1.
It failed because nVidia
Submitted by Jox on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 7:58pm
It failed because nVidia spent millions "convincing" software developers that they didn't need to waste time and resources on this 10.1 thing. Remember Assassin's Creed? That was a 10.1 game, until 10.1 support was patched out of it.
I hear nVidia is working on a new slogan for their company to replace "the way it's meant to be played". The new one will be "nVidia: innovation must be stopped!"
-Jox
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