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.
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