14 DAY TRIAL // Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced the world’s first demonstration of a DirectX 11-capable graphics processing unit, featuring the company’s next-generation 40nm GPU. The world’s number two chip maker has taken the opportunity offered by Computex to demonstrate its capability to provide users with support for the latest technologies, before its main competitors. A series of demonstrations took place at the event, where AMD showcased some of the unique features that will be enabled through the adoption of Microsoft’s next-generation DirectX 11 API. In addition, AMD also announced that its first DirectX 11-ready GPUs would be ready for market debut even before the end of 2009.
“AMD has a long track record of delivering pioneering features that have gone on to become mainstays in the DirectX experience, and we’re doing it again with two mature, AMD-developed technologies in DirectX 11 – tessellation and the compute shader – both of which enable a better DirectX 11 experience for consumers,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president, AMD Products Group. “Today, we’re previewing AMD’s DirectX 11 graphics processor to build enthusiasm for this key technology so developers will have games available at launch and shortly thereafter. With the benefits it delivers to gaming, applications and Windows 7, developers are lining up to get their hands on our hardware, and we’re confident that consumers will too.”
Despite the series of demonstrations made to showcase AMD’s capability to become an early adopter of new technologies, the chip maker hasn’t delivered any significant details regarding the technical specifications of its next-generation GPUs. These details are still kept under wraps, as AMD will try to unveil its upcoming graphics chips before the end of this year, probably in time for the debut of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, which has been confirmed for October 22.
With the announcement AMD also provided a series of videos demonstrating some of the features enabled by DirectX 11. Be sure to check them out below to get a glimpse of what is to come.
