DirectX 11.2 Won't be Fully Supported by AMD Radeon HD 7000 Graphics Cards

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This article has outdated information and AMD has already made an official statment that the 7000 series cards will support DX11.2: "The AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 series hardware architecture is fully DirectX® 11.2-capable when used with a driver that enables this feature. AMD is planning to enable DirectX 11.2 with a driver update in the Windows® 8.1 launch timeframe in October, when DirectX® 11.2 ships. Today, AMD is the only GPU manufacturer to offer fully-compatible DirectX 11.1 support, and the only manufacturer to support Tiled Resources Tier-2 within a shipping product stack.”
 
"Anyway, don't AMD/ATI GPUs tend to be more general purpose than NVIDIA GPUs and therefore more versatile and feature-rich and therefore ahead with supporting the newest Direct X versions."

I do not think this holds true in any thing other than AMD has shows to have had the newer DX ahead of Nvidia, but no games are using it so its almost moot
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The fact is other than a few times in the past 10-12 years AMD has been a good bit behind Nvidia, In recent years it has been so bad they where able to sell a GK104 mid range chip for $499.99 and the top end GK110 for a absurd $999.99 due to lack of competition. With CUDA, SLI(was superior until recent patches fixed the frame pacing) Folding and Active Vsync and Digital vibrance with over all better driver support to newer games AMD has just not been some thing I would put my money in. I have owned 4 ATI/AMD cards and returned each one with in 1 month and got a Nvidia card to replace it due to incompatibility with the games or programs I uses.

I truly hope AMD can up the ante with the next gen of GPUs and real Nvidia's price back down to what it should be, healthy competition is always good for consumers.
 

Not this again. GK110 is MUCH, MUCH bigger than Tahiti. It is far more expensive to manufacture. Tahiti is only a little bit larger than GK104, so they are natural competitors at similar price points. GK110 was never going to be a mainstream GPU, it is simply way too big and expensive for them to sell it for $400 or less.
 
So this article says its just the drivers dont yet support something that isnt even out yet. What a stupid f'n article. It will get updated obviously, what kind of morons write and approve this crap.
 


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It's going to be a long long time before game devs start making games that won't play on Radeons, especially considering all of the new console systems will be based on them. Universal compatibility would be ideal for the gaming platform, so I don't forsee this being any issue WHATSOEVER any time in the normal lifespan of your GPU, even if you just purchased it.
 
i really don't understand microsoft and their stupid exclusivity stunts. pc gamers get pissed when they do this, they don't get more excited for their products. in fact, it's all the more reason to avoid them.

they're are extremely lucky that they are the leading operating system when it comes to video games. they better pray and hope to god that linux doesn't come in and sweep up the crowd, because once that happens, it's over for you MS. they will leave in DROVES.
 

The Radeon HD 7000 series still supports more DirectX features than the Geforce 600 or 700 series. The difference is just not really going to matter in practice.
 


None probably which is why you need to rush out now and buy a 7xxx series card so that in five years time when DX15 is released you can say that you bought a card that could run a version of DX that was never used! :lol:
 
Should be retitled, - Game Designers Won't Be Fully Supporting DirectX 11.2.. With the consoles being 11.1 and this being Win8.1 compatible only, my money is on the fact that you will see a total of 2 or less games ever utilize this.
 
So it's a driver update... Which has to happen with any new dx version... And this version is exclusive to windows 8 which no one uses... And it will take years for games to incorporate 11.2... So... Why do we care? And why isn't there a flame story about home nvidia will also have to update their drivers?
 


Because nVidia drivers are perfect and flawless, didn't you know?

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LOL :lol:
 
Hopefully MS will continue to have their heads up their butts on this issue. Not supporting new DX versions on older versions of their operating systems will just lead to more developers using opengl.

The quicker DX dies and fades away the happier i will be. DX games are the only reason im using windows at all. Its the only reason ive continued to use windows during the last 10 years.
 
The Gaming developers will decide weather or not they want to use DX11.2 or not and that will probably be based on feedback from multiple sources. MS. can try to shove it down everyones throat, but if it's not accepted, it won't go far at all.
 
All future updates to DX should be Windows 8.1 only. All future games should be Windows 8.1 only there is no need to develop games or DirectX tech for a obsolete OS. And after Windows 8.1 comes out anything older is obsolete period.
 

Lets be reasonable. The OSes with the highest market share is W7 followed by XP
I don't expect the adoption of W8 to be very fast. All that would accomplish is make people P.O.'ed and cut sales

 
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