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nVidia makes good on their promise: DX12 support for Fermi

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Scali

You might remember that in the months leading up to Mantle, DX12 and Vulkan, I mentioned that all of nVidia’s cards from Fermi and up would support DX12. This was also officially confirmed by nVidia on this page, and also … Continue reading →

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Rise of the Tomb Raider: DX12 update

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Scali

An update for Rise of the Tomb Raider was released yesterday, adding support for the DX12 API: http://steamcommunity.com/games/391220/announcements/detail/870690772757808963 And: http://tombraider.tumblr.com/post/140859222830/dev-blog-bringing-directx-12-to-rise-of-the-tomb As you can see: Adds NVIDIA VXAO Ambient Occlusion technology. This is the world’s most advanced real-time AO solution, specifically developed for … Continue reading →

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No DX12_1 for upcoming Radeon 3xx and Fury series?

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Scali

A few days ago it was confirmed that none of AMD’s current GPUs are capable of supporting the new rendering features in DirectX 12 level 12_1, namely Conservative Rasterization and Rasterizer Ordered Views. I already mentioned that back when Maxwell … Continue reading →

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Intel tries its hand at a discrete GPU again?

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Scali

As you may have heard a few months ago, Intel has employed Raja Koduri, former GPU-designer at AMD’s Radeon division. Back then the statement already read: In this position, Koduri will expand Intel’s leading position in integrated graphics for the … Continue reading →

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DirectX 12 and Vulkan: what it is, and what it isn’t

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Scali

I often read comments in the vein of: “… but vendor A’s hardware is designed more for DX12/Vulkan than vendor B’s”. It’s a bit more complicated than that, because it is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem. So I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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FutureMark’s Time Spy: some people still don’t get it

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Scali

Today I read a review of AMD’s new Radeon RX470 on Tweakers.net, by Jelle Stuip. He used Time Spy as a benchmark, and added the following description: About 3DMark Time Spy has recently been some controversy, because it is found … Continue reading →

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GeForce GTX1060: nVidia brings Pascal to the masses

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Scali

Right, we can be short about the GTX1060… It does exactly what you’d expect: it scales down Pascal as we know it from the GTX1080 and GTX1070 to a smaller, cheaper chip, aiming at the mainstream market. The card is … Continue reading →

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AMD’s Polaris debuts in Radeon RX480: I told you so

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Scali

In a recent blogpost, after dealing with the nasty antics of a deluded AMD fanboy, I already discussed what we should and should not expect from AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX480. Today, the NDA was lifted, and reviews appear everywhere on the … Continue reading →

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nVidia’s GeForce GTX 1080, and the enigma that is DirectX 12

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Scali

As you are probably aware by now, nVidia has released its new Pascal architecture, in the form of the GTX 1080, the ‘mainstream’ version of the architecture, codenamed GP104. nVidia had already presented the Tesla-varation of the high-end version earlier, … Continue reading →

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DirectX 12 is out, let’s review

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Scali

Well, DirectX 12 is launched, together with a new version of Windows (Windows 10) and an improved driver system (WDDM 2.0). Because, if you remember, we also had: Windows Vista + DirectX 10 + WDDM 1.0 Windows 7 + DirectX … Continue reading →

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