DirectX 11.2 Won't be Fully Supported by AMD Radeon HD 7000 Graphics Cards
It appears that AMD's current Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards might not have complete support for the upcoming DirectX 11.2.
A report from Heise.de, a German technology website, indicates that the current AMD Radeon HD 7000 series of graphics cards won't be fully compatible with the upcoming DirectX 11.2 standard from Microsoft. DirectX 11.2 will be released with, and exclusively on, Windows 8.1.
The problem would exist on graphics cards that are built on the GCN architecture, so of course it would also include the OEM only AMD Radeon HD 8000 series graphics cards.
It appears, according to an engineer from AMD, Laylah Mah, that the problem isn't actually specific to the hardware. Laylah said that adjustments to the drivers could add support for the DirectX 11.2. Sadly, she didn't indicate whether such a driver was scheduled. (Laylah was interviewed by the German magazine C'T.)
The DirectX 11.2 package will bring a number of new features to users, including D3D titled resources.
AMD promised to release a 11.2 fully compatible driver in october, when windows 8.1 is released (trust me, my english may not be the best but i'm from austria, so a native german speaker and i understand what the article at heise.de says)
(i also posted this before, but it got deleted...)
Unless it gets backported, few games will use it.
Best thing the Graphics card giants can do is steer that power away from Microsoft somehow.
AMD promised to release a 11.2 fully compatible driver in october, when windows 8.1 is released (trust me, my english may not be the best but i'm from austria, so a native german speaker and i understand what the article at heise.de says)
(i also posted this before, but it got deleted...)
Unless it gets backported, few games will use it.
Please proofread your articles.
It ain't like Nvidia can do anything about that since Microsoft is the one making DX11.2 exclusive to Win8.1
Anyway, don't AMDATI GPUs tend to be more general purpose than NVIDIA GPUs and therefore more versatile and feature-rich and therefore ahead with supporting the newest DirectX versions.
And let's keep it a secret that Nvidia is still at 11.0.
Anyway, don't AMDATI GPUs tend to be more general purpose than NVIDIA GPUs and therefore more versatile and feature-rich and therefore ahead with supporting the newest DirectX versions.
No. I can't watch telly and fold with an AMD GPU because it can't handle having two bits of software using the GPU at the same time whereas every Nvidia GPU I have used from a 9500GT to a GTX560Ti didn't have a problem at all running two bits of software at the same time. I think Nvidia GPU's are the ones that are more versatile and as PhysX is a feature that AMD don't have I think they are richer in that department too.
The Kepler architecture supports DirectX 11.1 with hardware feature level 11_0. GCN supports DirectX 11.1 with hardware feature level 11_1. For gaming, the difference is minimal.
Besides, features only supported by one side are just going to take that much longer to be used in actual games. API support is very rarely going to matter when choosing between contemporary graphics cards.
It could because the AMD fans want to kick up a fuss like they did when DX10.1 was supported by their cards alone. And we all remember how well DX10.1 got taken up and implemented into thousands of games that were then unplayable if you had an Nvidia GPU, we do all remember that don't we?