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The operating system Windows 7 will appear during October 2009. At the same time, must appear the 3d- accelerators with directX 11 support, the first expected card will become AMD RV870. AMD published a document, which reveals the detail of directX 11 and, which shows the advantages of new API versions .
Among the update of directX 11 it is possible to note the new shader model version (Compute shader model 5.0). It is added three additional stages of visualizations, located between the stages of apical and geometric shader.
The new version shader model 5.0 standardizes the technology of graphic processor application for general purpose calculations (GPGPU), independent from GPU producer .
DirectX 11 include multiflow visualization and improved parallelism. Furthermore, is added support to dynamic link shader, two new sizes of compressed textures and hardware support of floating-point numbers with double precision (optional). Related Products :
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