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AMD Details Llano, the 2011 Fusion Processor

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has revealed details about one of its most anticipated products, namely the Llano microprocessor, which will combine a general-purpose x86 processor with an integrated graphics engine. Slated to debut sometime in 2011, according to the company's latest roadmap, ...

12 November 2009
03:42 GMT

NVIDIA Will Be Fashionably Late in Launching Fermi

Although the next-generation CUDA architecture developed by NVIDIA was, and is, the subject of desire for many consumers, it seems that it will continue to be looked forward to for quite a while. People had hopes that the rumors concerning the delays were false, hopes that NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang completely dispell...

9 November 2009
07:07 GMT

DiRT 2 Offers More Realism, Courtesy of DirectX 11

Codemasters announced that a version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 featuring full DirectX 11 support had been in development along the versions for gaming consoles and that it would be released on December 1 in North America, on December 4 in the United Kingdom and at dates in between in other territories. The news came jus...

26 October 2009
10:30 GMT

AMD Officially Debuts the Mainstream Radeon HD 5700-Series

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest processor vendor, has just announced the official expansion of its updated line of DirectX 11-capable graphics cards, with the introduction of the new Radeon HD 5700-series. The new releases have already been made official by a number...

19 October 2009
03:15 GMT

AMD and CyberLink Accelerate Applications with Windows 7 DirectX 11 DirectCompute

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices and CyberLink Corp. have jointly announced today that they will extend their partnership to include a focus on Microsoft's DirectX 11 DirectCompute technology and take advantage of the capabilities of AMD's latest DirectX 11-capable graphics architecture. C...

9 October 2009
06:54 GMT

Radeon HD 5870 Listed by Leading Graphics Card Makers

As you might have already found out, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced yesterday the debut of its next generation of desktop graphics cards, the much-anticipated Radeon HD 5800 series, providing end-users with the first DirectX 11-support line of video cards. Following the official intr...

24 September 2009
03:48 GMT

Radeon HD 5800 Series Is Here, World's First DirectX 11 Cards

After much anticipation and following a string of continuous leaked rumors and details, the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has announced today the launch of its next generation of desktop graphics processing units, the Radeon HD 5800 series, specifically designed to enable a performance boost over...

23 September 2009
02:56 GMT

DirectX End-User Runtimes and Web Installer Now with Windows 7 Support

The latest updates to DirectX resources from Microsoft have been tailored to the most recent iteration of the Windows client. In this regard, the Redmond company revealed that both DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2009) and the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer come with support for Windows 7. Earlier this mont...

18 September 2009
16:41 GMT

DirectX 11 for Windows Vista SP2 Available for Download

Microsoft is beginning to backport Windows 7 features to Windows Vista, and as an integral part of the process, the company is also upgrading Vista’s graphics technology to the level of Windows 7. In this regard, the Redmond-based company has made available for download the Beta development milestone of the Pla...

11 September 2009
13:01 GMT

Crysis Running on the iPhone, Thanks to AMD's DirectX 11 GPUs

The iPhone, Apple's entrance in the world of mobiles and handhelds, is one of the world's most popular devices, having already reached its 3rd generation. Crysis is also one of the most popular products in its category, being considered a benchmark for new computer hardware, due to its strong visual require...

11 September 2009
08:56 GMT

Rumor Mill: Radeon HD 5870 in All Its Beauty

One of the most anticipated products this September is coming from Advanced Micro Devices, which is expected to announce the release of its new series of Radeon HD 5800 series of graphics cards, bringing to the market the first DirectX 11-compatible GPU. A number of leaked details on the said cards have recently made...

11 September 2009
04:17 GMT

Download DirectX 11 Resources for Windows 7 and Vista

Microsoft has made available for download updated DirectX 11 resources tailored to Windows 7 and Windows Vista, but also additional Windows client and server operating systems. According to the Redmond-based company, the refreshed DirectX 11 release brings to the table the RTM version of Direct3D. Essentially, what i...

10 September 2009
10:45 GMT

Rumor Mill: Radeon HD 5800 Pricing Revealed

In the past couple of weeks, we have seen a considerable number of articles on AMD's much-anticipated, next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, presumably part of the chip maker's upcoming ATI Radeon HD 5000 series of GPUs, but, as we are approaching an alleged release date, the rumors just keep comi...

4 September 2009
08:52 GMT

Win a DirectX 11 Radeon GPU in New PowerColor Contest

There has been a series of details made available on the Internet regarding the next generation of desktop graphics cards providing users with support for the upcoming DirectX 11 API, but it finally looks like we have a confirmation that these cards are on their way. PowerColor, one of the world's leading manufa...

2 September 2009
08:35 GMT

AMD's Dual-Chip DirectX 11 'Hemlock' GPU Comes in Q409

As we are approaching the highly anticipated official release date of AMD's next generation of Radeon graphics cards, more details surface on the company's upcoming lineup, including codenames and possible release time frames. According to the most recent details, the new cards should debut before the end o...

2 September 2009
06:23 GMT

NVIDIA: Windows 7 and DirectX 11 the New Ultimate Power Gaming Platform

The latest iteration of the Windows client and the next generation of the OS’ graphics technology will deliver the new ultimate power gaming platform, according to Chris Daniel, product manager for software at NVIDIA. Windows 7 and DirectX 11 bring to the table the graphics processing unit (GPU) for computing, ...

24 August 2009
09:44 GMT

Radeon HD 5870, HD 5850 Are AMD's DirectX 11 Cards

The details on AMD's next generation of desktop graphics cards continue to hit the Internet, as we are approaching the much-anticipated moment when the Sunnyvale, California-based company will officially take the wraps off its first DirectX 11 cards. Following the pictures of the allegedly first AMD card with Di...

24 August 2009
08:13 GMT

Rumor Mill: Pictures of AMD's First DirectX 11 Card Surface

One of the most anticipated products due to be released by the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is the company's first DirectX 11 graphics card, which is supposed to become available sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. Unfortunately, despite a couple of details that have been made avai...

21 August 2009
05:49 GMT

ATI Catalyst 9.7 Drivers for Windows 7 DirectX 11 Deliver a Seamless User Experience

In combination with ATI Radeon graphics cards, the ATI Catalyst 9.7 drivers for users running Windows 7 and DirectX 11 will deliver a seamless user experience, Nigel Dessau, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at AMD has revealed. Dessau has applauded the last development milestone of Windows 7, which w...

28 July 2009
11:10 GMT

Colin McRae: DiRT 2 Gets Delayed for DirectX 11

Racing games have always been about delivering one of the most intricate and life-like experiences to gamers all around the world who want to feel the adrenaline-filled moments during a high-stakes race through some beautiful environments. In the hardcore simulation genre, Codemasters' Colin McRae series has al...

7 July 2009
03:17 GMT

Brad Wardell Believes Windows 7 Will Be Good for Gamers

After the embarrassing performance delivered by Vista, Microsoft has been upping its game when it comes to operating system design and seems to be prepared to offer quite a competent platform with Windows 7, which is set to be released soon. But will the OS, which is seen as an evolution of Vista rather than being an...

19 June 2009
03:54 GMT

AMD Graphics Processor, First to Embrace DirectX 11 in Windows 7

AMD is the first to embrace DirectX 11, the successor of DX 10.1 with a graphics processor unveiled at COMPUTEX 2009, Taipei. The next generation of Microsoft's graphics technology will be made available not only as an integral part of Windows 7, but also for Windows Vista, as a standalone download. However, bac...

3 June 2009
06:31 GMT

AMD Demonstrates World’s First DX11 GPU at Computex 2009

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...

3 June 2009
01:02 GMT

Rumor Mill: AMD to Be First with DirectX 11 GPUs

According to sources in Taiwan, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices will beat its main rival NVIDIA in the race for the first DirectX 11-ready GPUs. The company has reportedly been ready to unveil the new models for some time now, but the much anticipated release has been stalled due to issues with TSM...

29 May 2009
08:42 GMT

AMD DirectX 11 Graphics Cards in H2 2009

AMD plans to introduce new graphics cards with support for DirectX 11 in the second half of 2009. In fact, speculation points out that the move is planned to happen sooner than latter with the chip maker reportedly looking to have the first DirectX 11-capable graphics cards on the market as soon as July or August. AM...

22 April 2009
14:10 GMT

AMD's 2011 Mobile APU to Boast DirectX 11 Support

Earlier this week, we had the pleasure of interviewing AMD's John Swinimer, public relations manager for the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker, who told us a couple of interesting facts about some of the company's upcoming products, including the much anticipated APUs (Accelerated Processing Units). Th...

10 April 2009
03:15 GMT

Download New Windows 7 Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) Release

Microsoft has refreshed its lineup of DirectX offerings at the start of this week, and the company is by no means shy of focusing the spotlight on the evolution of the graphics technology as Windows 7 is contouring. The software giant is offering fresh Technical Previews of Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXGI 1.1, but al...

24 March 2009
04:21 GMT

AMD and NVIDIA to Talk Future of Graphics at GDC 2009

Both NVIDIA and AMD are expected to be present at this year's Game Developers Conference, held in San Francisco between March 23 and March 27. As leaders in the industry for graphics solutions, both companies are expected to provide their view on the future of gaming graphics and discuss how their technologies c...

18 March 2009
10:12 GMT

Microsoft Pushes Gaming Technology Event into 2010

For the time being, Microsoft has kept “2009” for what should now be Gamefest 2010. However, the Redmond company did announce that its gaming technology event had been pushed back into the next twelvemonth. Rather than holding Gamefest 2009 by the end of this year, the software giant revealed that the con...

26 January 2009
07:35 GMT

Windows 7 DirectX11 High-Fidelity Graphics Enhancements

DirectX debuted back in 1995, and, with the upcoming Windows client, the underlying graphics technology of the operating system will evolve to the next level. Not only will DirectX 11 be available for Windows 7, but Microsoft has also promised that this time around it will provide backwards compatibility, at least as...

1 December 2008
15:31 GMT

Windows 7 Direct3D 11 Features

As of November 2008, Microsoft is delivering the first taste of DirectX 11 for Windows 7 for download. A release aimed at developers, The November 2008 DirectX Software Development Kit, brings to the table the successor of Direct3D 10.1, namely Direct3D 11. In the SDK package, the Redmond company is offering a techni...

27 November 2008
16:01 GMT

Download a Taste of DirectX 11 for Windows 7 and Vista SP1

With Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 out of Redmond, it was only natural that DirectX 11 would follow. And this is precisely what happened. Having served Milestone 3 Build of the next iteration of the Windows client, Microsoft is also moving forward with the graphics technology included by default with the operating sy...

11 November 2008
03:00 GMT

DirectX 11, 40nm GPUs, GPGPU and More to Come from ATI in 2009

The current leading manufacturer of high-performance graphics cards, AMD, is expected to transition to Microsoft's next-generation API, DirectX 11, sometime in 2009. In addition, the company is also said to be planning its very first 40nm-based graphics chips, which could also hit the market sometime next year, ...

6 October 2008
04:40 GMT

Windows 7 in 2009, Not 2010

While the first Beta taste of Windows 7 is planned for the end of 2008, the gold build of Windows Vista's successor is expected to have a general availability date set for 2009. Officially, Microsoft is sticking to its “by January 30 2010” or “three years after the general availability of Vista...

6 October 2008
04:03 GMT

DirectX 11 Compatible GPUs from ATI Expected in 2009

Advanced Micro Devices graphics products group ATI announced at the CEATEC trade-show taking place in Japan that it expects to have DirectX 11-compatible GPUs available in 2009. Some voices on the Web say that this is a clear sign that the Sunnyvale company plans to release a new series of graphics cards, one that wi...

3 October 2008
06:08 GMT

Even with DirectX 11 on the Horizon, the Focus Is on DirectX 10.1

When the latest Windows client hit the shelves at the end of January 2007, Microsoft was under a barrage of criticism from the community of developers and gamers for its decision to make DirectX 10 Vista-exclusive, and not to backport the graphics technology for Windows XP, stuck with DX 9.0x. With the advent of Wind...

26 August 2008
08:03 GMT

Windows 7 DirectX 11 Tessellation - Unprecedented Visuals

Microsoft has already indicated through the voice of Anantha Kancherla, manager of Windows desktop and graphics technologies, that DirectX 11 would be at the vanguard of the upcoming general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution. However, the real details have only been shared with developers and not the gen...

7 August 2008
13:12 GMT

Microsoft: DirectX 11 at the Vanguard of the GPGPU Revolution

Microsoft's next iteration of DirectX is bound to be situated at the forefront of the general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) revolution, according to the Redmond company. The software giant has been extremely shy of revealing details about the successor of DirectX 10 directly to the general public. At its r...

6 August 2008
11:13 GMT

AMD Announces Support for DirectX 11

After announcing its latest chipset with integrated graphics, Advanced Micro is showing clear signs of thinking well ahead into the future. A rep for the company just announced today plans for extending the efforts in the adoption of the next-generation GPGPU software development. What that actually means is that, in...

6 August 2008
08:34 GMT

AMD Working on DirectX 11 Support

Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its...

31 July 2008
10:13 GMT

Undisclosed DirectX 11 Features Heading for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

Microsoft has just started talking about the successor of DirectX 10 and is, of course, far from having revealed all the details. In fact, the Redmond company has some surprises cooking that it failed to bring to the table in its discussion with the developing community at GameFest 2008. With the evolution towards Wi...

29 July 2008
11:58 GMT

DirectX 11 Will Change How Gaming Looks

At long last, after months of speculation, Microsoft has revealed a few details regarding its upcoming DirectX 11. The company promises that, following the somewhat icy reception that the Vista only DirectX 10 has had, it will create a gaming graphics API that will improve the looks and the performance of AAA game ti...

23 July 2008
02:55 GMT

Beyond DirectX 10.1, Get Ready for a DirectX 11 Feast on July 22-23, 2008

By the end of this month, Microsoft will give not just a taste of the evolution of its graphics technology by an entire DirectX 11 feast. While so far the Redmond giant has served nothing but crumbs of the successor of DirectX 10.1, the situation will change on July 22-23, and the GameFest 2008 Microsoft Game Techno...

9 July 2008
13:21 GMT

Nvidia Jumps to DirectX11, PhysX Overwrites 3DMark Vantage Files

Nvidia seems to finally give us an answer to whether it will make its next generation graphics cards DirectX 10.1 ready or not. The company simply says no to this only because it plans to jump over ATI's DirectX 10.1 and go straight to DirectX 11. Also, its latest PhysX drivers, believed to cheat on 3DMark Vanta...

9 July 2008
06:16 GMT

The First Taste of DirectX 11 Soon - Version 11 Is Based on DirectX 10

Forget about DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1, the future of Microsoft's graphics platform for the Windows operating system is DirectX 11. The Redmond giant has certainly kept quiet on DirectX 11, just as it has gagged all information on the next iteration of Windows, but details do slip through its fingers. And whil...

10 June 2008
03:21 GMT

Forget Vista SP1 and DirectX 10.1 - Windows 7 Is the Next Generation Gaming Platform

Windows 7 Milestone 1 (M1) Ultimate Edition Build 6.1.6519.1 might not show it yet, but it is evolving to become the next generation gaming platform from Microsoft. Windows Vista brought to the table the jump from DirectX 9.x to DirectX 10, and Vista Service Pack 1 delivered the first update to the graphics infrastru...

18 February 2008
12:26 GMT

Intel's Larrabee: Silicon to Come Later This Year, Mass Production in 2009

Intel's Larrabee is the codename for a so-called many-core architecture to shoulder a multitude of hardware products as well as some other implementations. The Larrabee technology will be included in some products with different number of cores to target different markets. During yesterday's conference call...

16 January 2008
10:11 GMT

Is DirectX 10.1 in Vista SP1 the Last of Its Kind? DirectX 11 Next?

At this point in time, Microsoft is preparing DirectX 10.1 as an integer part of the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. In this sense, as DirectX 10 was introduced concomitantly with Vista at the end of 2006 and early 2007, in concordance with the operating system's business and consu...

5 December 2007
11:27 GMT


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