AMD DirectX 11 Preview

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AMD invited Legit Reviews up to their private suite in the hotel that Quakecon 2009 is being hosted at for a first look at gaming on one of their upcoming DirectX 11 graphics cards. This graphics card has not been officially named yet, but it has the internal code name of 'Evergreen' and was first shown to the media back at Computex over in Taiwan earlier this year. Once we arrived in the AMD suite we were introduced to not one, but two systems running DX11 hardware! One system was setup running a bunch of DX11 SDKs and the other system was running the demo for the upcoming game title Wolfenstein. The Wolfenstein video game demo uses just DX9, so it really doesn't show off DirectX 11 performance or functionality, but it does show that the GPU is up and running.
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Interesting read for anyone wanting to know more about what's in store for DX11 cards. :)
 
I'm interested to see more. High resolution renderings of pebbled surfaces don't appeal to me much.

When will these cards be released?
 
I would be into this, but i cant use an ATI Card, my system keeps on restarting when ever i install one upto the last one i tried HD46XX something cant remeber. So I stick to Nvidia Cards no issues with them.
 
ZAP_Tech said:
I would be into this, but i cant use an ATI Card, my system keeps on restarting when ever i install one upto the last one i tried HD46XX something cant remeber. So I stick to Nvidia Cards no issues with them.
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Lol...the same happended to me when I installed a new 4890 into my system...It only stopped after I installed the ATI driver while in safe mode. Very weird indeed.
 
ZenbaaS said:
Lol...the same happended to me when I installed a new 4890 into my system...It only stopped after I installed the ATI driver while in safe mode. Very weird indeed.
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You were lucky then even after i manage to install the driver, it still did it. I updated the driver it still rebooted had the card swap out twice before chaging... Thank God for the 7-day exchange rule, and the insomnia.
 
For the nvidia users out there, the cards from 9600 and above will be able to support dx 11, but tbh i dont think its gonna be much of a difference. The graphics are just fine on dx10, sure there was a slight difference between dx9 and dx10 but i cant see how much better they could make it from dx10 to dx11.
 
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