AMD has WHQL Certified DirectX 11 Drivers

wiak · Sep 15, 2009

On August 31st 2009, AMD reached a new software development milestone – the world's first Microsoft WHQL certificated graphics driver for DirectX 11 and DirectCompute 11.
AMD's DirectX 11 WHQL certified graphics driver delivers support for all of the key DirectX 11 level features required for new gaming experiences and acceleration of next generation high performance applications:

DirectCompute 11
Shader Model 5.0
Tessellation
Addressable stream output
Geometry Shader Instancing
Pull Model attribute evaluation
Subroutines
New texture formats

Meeting Microsoft's WHQL certification requirements in the ATI Catalyst 8.651 graphics driver for DirectX 11 and Windows 7 clearly demonstrates AMD's focus and determination to deliver an extremely stable and robust experience on AMD's next generation of DirectX 11 ATI Radeon Graphics accelerators

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AMD > NVIDIA :nutkick:

troyrae360 · Sep 15, 2009

Lol
Yup AMD is doing well they also got themselfs a 12 core processor

REVHEAD · Sep 15, 2009

We may get a dx11 game thats half decent in 2 or 3 years time.

Any link to the driver?

troyrae360 · Sep 15, 2009

REVHEAD said:
We may get a dx11 game thats half decent in 2 or 3 years time.

Any link to the driver?

Dirt 2 will be out soon

wiak · Sep 15, 2009

REVHEAD said:
We may get a dx11 game thats half decent in 2 or 3 years time.

Any link to the driver?

am not sure, but catalyst 9.9 is Driver Packaging Version: 8.65-090813a-087739C-AT

95Viper · Sep 15, 2009

wiak said:
am not sure, but catalyst 9.9 is Driver Packaging Version: 8.65-090813a-087739C-AT

DXDiag says it is, on Windows 7 64bit, when run in 64bit mode w/ whql checking on.

Easo · Sep 15, 2009

Onwards to glory! AMD/ATI is rolling hard!

HolyCow02 · Sep 16, 2009

nice! Go AMD. I agree on a DX11 game though... let's see how long it takes to get one.

Beowulf · Sep 16, 2009

Well Dirt 2 is out, but by Q1 there will be a handful

ToTTenTranz · Sep 16, 2009

I wonder if these drivers will also enable the Compute Shader for the DX10.1 cards.

wiak · Sep 17, 2009

95Viper said:
DXDiag says it is, on Windows 7 64bit, when run in 64bit mode w/ whql checking on.

dxdiag isnt realy that useful, it says DX11 even when you got a DX10.1 card

Zubasa · Sep 17, 2009

ToTTenTranz said:
I wonder if these drivers will also enable the Compute Shader for the DX10.1 cards.

They don't exist on DX 10.1 cards

wiak said:
dxdiag isnt realy that useful, it says DX11 even when you got a DX10.1 card

Nope, you should look at the DDI version, it says 10.1 even in Vista.
It is in the display panel, the front page only tells you the version of DirectX API installed.
The point is the drivers are WDDM 1.1 and is WHQL certified for Win 7.

ToTTenTranz · Sep 17, 2009

Zubasa said:
They don't exist on DX 10.1 cards

DirectX 11 brings Compute Shaders 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0.
4.0 for DX10 cards, 4.1 for DX10.1 and 5.0 for DX11.

Compute shaders 4.x should have less performance than 5.0, of course, but they're there and should be usefull.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectCompute

1Kurgan1 · Sep 17, 2009

REVHEAD said:
We may get a dx11 game thats half decent in 2 or 3 years time.

Any link to the driver?

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=103614

I'm counting 14 titles already announced to support it and at least 3 - 5 of those will be out within 1 year, this isn't like the DX10 release.

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