{"id":4701,"date":"2009-10-26T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"first-dx-11-benchmark-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/4701-first-dx-11-benchmark-emerges","title":{"rendered":"First DX 11 benchmark emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Windows 7 and DirectX11 now officially in stores, and DX11 hardware selling strong, it would seem that the era of DX11 gaming has just begun.<\/p>\n<p>Unigine is the first developer to release a DX11 benchmarking tool; Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven also supports benchmarking compatibility for DX9 and DX10, as well as OpenGL and AMD&rsquo;s Eyefinity technology. The new tool uses tessellation technology, advanced SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion), dynamic sky with light scattering and volumetric clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven is the first tool that makes use of new features that AMD has introduced and it can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/unigine.com\/download\/#heaven\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=131846#post131846\" target=\"_self\">Discuss DX11 benchmark<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heaven is first proper HD 5&#215;00 benchmarking tool <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}