If there’s one thing you can count on when a new graphics chip is launched is that there will be a reference design which means, more or less, every single board at launch will sport the same speeds and designs so choosing one depends on what sort of image you like on the card’s cooler. […]
DirectX 11
The mid-range isn’t the mid-range you remember, it’s now what used to be last generation’s high-end, performance-wise at least. It’s all a little confusing but given the price/performance ratios offered by these new products it’s not hard to figure out why an upgrade is so tempting. Rage3D has a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD […]
Read more Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 flaunts inspired gaming prowess
Gaming has come a long way graphics-wise but there’s still quite a ways to go when it comes to the details that would make them truly immersive. One of those somewhat under-represented features is physics modeling which would improve realism…
Read more AMD Hopes to Push "Open Physics"
Multi-monitor solutions over the years have ranged from astounding driver nightmares to expensive third party solutions and, in the end, never really came into form when supporting gaming across multiple displays.AMD seeks to change all of that with their upcoming…
Read more ATI Radeon Eyefinity, flight simmers get their prayers answered
Microsoft’s upcoming WIndows 7 launch will bring with it another important piece of software for gamers, DirectX 11 (which will also support Vista). Ok DX11 is targeted at much more than just the gaming segment (GPGPU usage for one) but…
Read more AMD's DirectX 11 Preview, Evergreens Uncanny Valley Making Prowess
You can’t fault AMD’s Richard Huddy for being a little enthusiastic about Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 11 and the features it brings along for graphics cards. The graphics API’s "Local Data Share" capability is, in his words, the killer feature which…
Read more DirectX 11 Compute Shader Leads to Speed Up, Sharing is a "Killer Feature"
You may have mistaken Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system as a gussied up and streamlined version of their previous operating systems but you’d be ingoring the changes under the hood that are set to make it one of the…
Read more Windows 7's Direct3D Improvements, DirectX 11 Brings Whole Lots of Changes
AMD has been firing on all cylinders lately, well at least their ATI graphics division has. The company showed off the world’s first Microsoft DirectX 11 capable graphics chip at Computex and it’s quite impressive.Trusted Reviews has a look at…
Read more ATI's Touts First DirectX 11 GPU
Well this certainly came out of nowhere. Microsoft is usually the first to tout their own perceived advancements but this may come as a shocker and a definite selling point for their next operating system Windows 7.bit-tech was on…
Microsoft’s DirectX 10 graphics API promised us all a much richer visual experience when titles and graphics cards made full use of the technology, given how long new features take to work into game development things didn’t turn out so…
Read more Microsoft's DirectX 11, More Gaming Joy?
