AMD Delivers DX11 Graphics Solution For Under $100

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, 2010 @10:30AM from the does-not-improve-c64-aztec dept.

Vigile points out yesterday's launch of "the new AMD Radeon HD 5670, the first graphics card to bring DirectX 11 support to the sub-$100 market and offer next-generation features to almost any budget. The Redwood part (as it was codenamed) is nearly 3.5x smaller in die size than the first DX11 GPUs from AMD while still offering support for DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and of course DX11 features (like tessellation) in upcoming Windows gaming titles. Unfortunately, performance on the card is not revolutionary even for the $99 graphics market, though power consumption has been noticeably lowered while keeping the card well cooled in a single-slot design."

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ATI is aweful by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-16 21:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

ATI refuses to update the linux proprietary drivers for my video card for the newer kernels because supposedly my card which is only a few years old is according to them "legacy," but they still support windows albeit in a very limited (essential) scope despite it being legacy so i don't care what AMD/ATI does i am having no part in it. I don't know if AMD will lead to any change in this regard, but Id sooner give up computers altogether than support anything connected to ATI at this point.
Boycotted.