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AMD Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs currently lack DirectX 11.2 support

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AMD's graphics cards based on their first-generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, the Radeon HD 7000 series and the OEM-rebadged HD 8000 series, aren't currently compatible with DirectX 11.2. Speaking at GDC, AMD engineer Laylah Mah revealed that the current range of AMD GPUs will be incompatible with Microsoft's new API when it launches alongside Windows 8.1.

However, this incompatibility is only at the driver level according to Mah; the actual hardware of the HD 7000 series can support DirectX 11.2. When Microsoft finalized the specification, it ended up slightly different to what AMD was anticipating, causing the incompatibility. Mah says that this issue could be solved with a driver update in the future.

Direct3D 11.2, the 3D graphics API component of DirectX 11.2, includes a number of useful new features that game developers can implement. Tiled resources is one such feature, which allows the storage of high-resolution textures in both graphics memory and system RAM, keeping the GPU from being overburdened. This could ultimately lead to an unprecedented amount of detail that won’t appear fuzzy or blurred when viewed close up.

DirectX 11.2 will be exclusive to Windows 8.1, which launches October 18, as well as the Xbox One. AMD says that the CPU-GPU combination chips that they've provided for both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are compatible with DirectX 11.2, although at this stage it looks like only Microsoft's console will use the API.

Nvidia's latest range of GPUs, the GeForce 700 series, only partially support the features of DirectX 11.1 and above. Considering the relatively slow adoption of Windows 8, and how it took developers several years to implement DirectX 11 features in the latest games, we don't expect to see many DirectX 11.2 titles any time soon.
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Source
http://www.techspot.com/news/53687-...-gpus-currently-lack-directx-112-support.html


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AMD PR said:
“The 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.”
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rad...fter-driver-update_121841#PFhv1teJVGOL6Xhx.99
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Source
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rad...pport-directx-11-2-after-driver-update_121841
 
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flopper said:
You mean october
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20130819PD204.html:D
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Good find. :cool:

flopper said:
seems reasonable they will add support with win 8.1 then.
BF4 if support that then it be there.
btw did you guys see the latest BF4 trailer?
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Bit of a non-story both AMD and nVidia cards support all the functions relevant to gaming and just need software support and by the time they are feasible to use in any realistic way neither lot of GPUs will be upto it performance wise anyhow.
 
Rroff said:
Bit of a non-story both AMD and nVidia cards support all the functions relevant to gaming and just need software support and by the time they are feasible to use in any realistic way neither lot of GPUs will be upto it performance wise anyhow.
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Exactly this.

There was an article a while back that showed the features of directX 11.1 and what was fully compliant and what wasn't, neither AMD or Nvidia was completely fully compliant but AMD did support more features than Nvidia. It was some really obscure features that neither company could do and yet AMD have been given 11.1 certification and Nvidia haven't. I cannot find the article either which is a pain.
 
This has been the case since time immemorial hasn't it? At least since DX10.

The first gen of cards with support for [x] feature never use it, not sure how many people would even bother developing speculatively (apart from Crytek/iD), targeting GPU features that may or may not be standardized by launch.
 
Orangey said:
This has been the case since time immemorial hasn't it? At least since DX10.

The first gen of cards with support for [x] feature never use it, not sure how many people would even bother developing speculatively (apart from Crytek/iD), targeting GPU features that may or may not be standardized by launch.
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if no customers then why build games for them?
game developers always target the mass cards which is mainstream.
 
Added to OP.

AMD PR said:
“The 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.”
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rad...fter-driver-update_121841#PFhv1teJVGOL6Xhx.99
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Source
http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rad...pport-directx-11-2-after-driver-update_121841
 
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