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AMD Demos DirectX 11-Capable ATI Graphics Card

Posted by timothy on from the indirectx-is-too-subtle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today at a press conference in Taiwan, AMD demonstrated the world's first GPU capable of DirectX 11 technology. The demonstrations shows the major improvements DirectX 11 gives us over DirectX 10 and also shows us what AMD has in store for an ATI Graphics Card coming out before the end of 2009 capable of DirectX 11. AMD shows three primary features of DirectX 11: a tessellator, which allows for less blocky and more fluid and realistic details; compute shaders which allows for less restricted programming; and finally, how DX11 is better designed to take advantage of multiple CPU cores."

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  1. Linux drivers? by anjilslaire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but will it run with all of the bells and whistles (sans DirectX, of course) on Linux? Will they have solid drivers available on release?

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    1. Re:Linux drivers? by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      When has ATI had solid anything drivers. Even the Windows drivers cause BSoDs for no apparent reason.

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    2. Re:Linux drivers? by harryandthehenderson · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That might also be a Linux community's fault. Linux never provided solid driver development kit.

      Doesn't seem to have stopped nVIDIA from making a pretty solid driver for Linux.

  2. So... by eexaa · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...so they are shipping real drivers with ATI cards? Great!

    (In fact, I hope that they finally do something about this. I was forced to avoid any ATI hardware for over 5 years now, just because of driver incompatibilities. It's just sad.)

  3. 3D CGI Porn by Petersko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Realistic 3D CGI porn. Of course."

    I guess that's for people who find it's just too creepy to have actual porn actresses in their downloaded mpg's... watching them... laughing at them... judging them...

    With CGI porn, the disconnect is complete! It has become a truly solitary masturbatory experience, the last vestiges of shared sexuality banished.

    WOO.... hoo?