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AMD's first DirectX 11 GPU Rumored To Be Late Now

AMD's first DirectX 11 graphics chip won't appear in products you can buy before November, despite being showed off at a trade show more than a month ago. AMD first showed off its DX11 GPU - codenamed 'RV870' - at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan early in June. I guess this doesn't matter as game maker Codemasters has already said this month that DX11 games like DiRT 2 are also going to be delayed.

DX11 will be part of Windows 7 - due in October - and is expected to be retrofitted to Vista with a Service Pack update shortly afterwards. Windows 7 will make use of the framework, using the API's CPU-on-GPU workload shifting to accelerate processor-intensive tasks. DX11 also brings tessellation and with it the promise of much more complex geometries - essentially, more detailed models than we've seen before.

The Register

Posted by | Wed, Jul 22, 2009 - 11:39 AM