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NVIDIA's DirectX 11 Architecture: GF100 In Detail

The NDA on information about Nvidia's GF100 (Fermi) DX11 GPU architecture has been lifted, and Alien Babel Tech takes a very in-depth look at the architecture.

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Nihilism5636d ago (Edited 5636d ago )

I'm still waiting on some more benchmarks.

I love the sound of the accelerated jittered sampling, god knows there are games that need it, games that immediately spring to mind: Dead Space.

I'm insanely psyched now, just sold my DSi for $200 with some games to count towards it, selling my old 22" monitor. I want one of these babies on launch day. I'll have 2 DX11 games to kick start the deliciousness.

@kakkoi

Yeah the MIMD instruction set is supposed to give a theoretical 10x performance improvement when doing heavy physx and particle effects. Like you said as well, things that were previously done with the core clock are done with the much faster shaders ( DDR5 ftw ).

NDAs on fermi were supposed to have ended, I thought we would get more news than this though, but the accelerated.... sounds like it will give a massive I.Q boost to games, especially to bad ports and older games. 32csaa also cant hurt. 93% as much performance at 32csaa as the same card running 8aa, cant complain about that :D

Kakkoii5636d ago (Edited 5636d ago )

Yeah, another great thing:
"On the GT200 the TMUs ran at the GPU’s core clock; on the GF100 they run at a higher clock, which allows them to perform more work in the same amount of time. nVidia’s numbers show 40% to 70% higher texturing performance than the GT200, despite having much fewer TMUs."

And apparently their tessellation implementation is much better than ATI's. Nvidia is looking to have a real winner on their hands here if the bench's hold true. And even if not, the architectural changes along are some amazing innovations.

Major_Tom5635d ago

DX11 still doesn't mean anything right now.

Kakkoii5635d ago

In terms of DX11 games out sure. But what is your point? Or do you just like to troll.

The hardware needs to be made available for developers to even think about switching to DX11. So stop acting like this is all pointless and stupid.

Major_Tom5634d ago

Were you one of the few people who said DX10 was the wave of the future, I'm willing to bet you probably were ;).

Kakkoii5634d ago

Nope. I wasn't even into computer technology all that much back then.

If you can't understand why GPU accelerated Tessellation and displacement mapping will be awesome for games, then you really have no business even commenting on these topics. Makes me think you really are just a troll.

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r2kcipher5636d ago

Well good thing I waited. I may still go with ATI. Seeing my budget shrunk since last year (when I started my new build). Nvidia never goes easy on the pricing.

bumnut5636d ago

Nvidia are expensive, but the ati5870 costs £350 in the uk, thats not exactly cheap.

5970 costs about £550 if you can find one

prejur5636d ago

I have been waiting for this one a long time.

I've got an awesome i7 system with an old 9800GTX and I have been quite tempted to go ATI but it looks as though the wait for Fermi will be worth it.

jmd7495636d ago

a good read, i'm still going to try and hold on to my GTX295 for as long as i can. until there's a game or set of games built ground up to take proper advantage of DX11 features such as tessellation etc, my GTX295 can easily handle anything that's running on the consoles, DX9, DX10, openGL 3.2 and physx.

bumnut5636d ago

If i had a gtx295 i wouldn't even be upgrading!

Serg5636d ago

When are they coming out? I can't wait... my 8800GTS decided to commit suicide last Saturday and I am in desperate need of a new GFX card. I won't go ATI ever again, had a couple of those back in the days and all of them were a pain in the ass (VPU recover anyone?). Currently I am forced to use a PC that can't handle a fullscreen YouTube video, which is bad, the worst part is that it uses a onboard Radeon 2100.

Nvidia, save me!

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Xbox June Update: Copilot for Gaming Available on Mobile, Aggregated Gaming Library, and More

There are many exciting updates this month for Xbox. Copilot for Gaming is available now for early preview on mobile and will be coming to PC soon. Xbox PC app introduces a wave of new updates: Aggregated gaming library gives players quick access to games from Xbox, Game Pass, and other leading PC storefronts, and with publisher channels players can browse their favorite franchises. Updates for the Xbox Console includes customization for Most Recently Used, free-to-play benefits, Game Hubs, and dialog improvements for game saves.

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darthv7221h ago

"Players can now hide system apps, pin favorites to the list, and reduce the number of tiles displayed. This update is part of our ongoing effort to make Home more personal, flexible, and responsive to feedback."

This is welcomed, i like a less cluttered home screen.

Profchaos16h ago

Not everything needs co pilot ms

1Victor9m ago

Gotta be a slow news day when a 18 hours and 3 comments (now 4)makes it to the front page🤷🏿
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Well anything that adds and help gamers is a good thing even if some don’t need it there’ll be more that will use it.

darthv724m ago

Well its MS news... those are usually pretty dry, unless it has something to do with another game being ported to PS. then its top of the pops.

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Playdead co-founder slammed with lawsuit as bitter row with co-founder escalates

Playdead co-founder Dino Patti is allegedly being sued by his former studio and business partner.
Patti was threatened with a lawsuit earlier this year after he posted a now-deleted LinkedIn post that shared an "unauthorized" picture of co-founder Arnt Jensen and discussed some of Limbo's development. Patti said Jensen demanded a little over $73,000 in "suitable compensation and reimbursement," adding that he had "repeatedly" had such letters over the last nine years.

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AMD CEO Shares Vision Behind Xbox Partnership and Next-Gen Chip Roadmap

AMD CEO Lisa Su talks about the Xbox AMD partnership, next-gen Ryzen + Radeon chips, and AI rendering tech coming to all Xbox devices.

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Obscure_Observer4d ago

AMD is really building hype around their unique partnership with Microsoft to help and build an advanced and seamless Xbox ecosystem across all Xbox consoles and devices.

I wonder what she meant by "full roadmap of gaming optimized chips" though? Seems ambitious.

Next year´s Xbox Showcase already looks promising and exciting. Here´s hoping they deliver.

InUrFoxHole4d ago

They had best show 3yrs in a row. Heading for another

VenomUK4d ago

Obscure_Observer said “I wonder what she meant by "full roadmap of gaming optimised chips" though? Seems ambitious.” To me, I interpret this to mean rather than having a couple of X/S products for launch and a handheld there is a longer term plan to release new products with higher specs at timed intervals. I’m speculating of course, but this could mean a spec bump every year or two, so that even if the PS6 or Steam Deck Home is released a year after ‘Xbox’ Microsoft can release an updated model that has a higher spec.

Agent753d ago

But Microsoft forgot the games.

KwietStorm_BLM4d ago

It's X3D chips for console. Everyone knows this. And it's been rumored in the PS6 forever.

Ganif3d ago

Correct.

"Sony's PlayStation 6 reportedly will feature an AMD semi-custom APU with a Zen 5 CPU and UDNA GPU, capable of 4K 120FPS and 8K 60FPS gaming. The console will include X3D cache and advanced AI upscaling technology."

https://www.tweaktown.com/n...

Obscure_Observer3d ago

"It's X3D chips for console. Everyone knows this. And it's been rumored in the PS6 forever."

I doubt that AMD´s CEO would waste her time making this huge and important partnership announcement over a tech that will be 7 years old by the those next gen consoles will be released.

Notellin3d ago

You should have just lead this comment with the fact that you have zero understanding of technology in the consoles and instead have a Toms Hardware online forum level of education.

Obscure_Observer22h ago

"It's X3D chips for console. Everyone knows this. And it's been rumored in the PS6 forever"

I´d told you were on some bs

https://www.pcgamesn.com/wp...

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Agent753d ago

But Microsoft forgot the games

Obscure_Observer3d ago

@VenomUK

"I’m speculating of course, but this could mean a spec bump every year or two, so that even if the PS6 or Steam Deck Home is released a year after ‘Xbox’ Microsoft can release an updated model that has a higher spec."

Very interesting theory. Still not sure how MS would actually make it work.

KwietStorm_BLM3d ago

"I doubt that AMD´s CEO would waste her time making this huge and important partnership announcement over a tech that will be 7 years old by the those next gen consoles will be released."

How old is the tech in consoles? It's not a huge announcement. It's marketing and you know it is.

Obscure_Observer2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

"How old is the tech in consoles? It's not a huge announcement. It's marketing and you know it is."

Dude, what I know for certain is that a tech as old as X3D chips which is actually *older* than both PS5 and Xbox Series consoles, is hardly the reason behind this new partnership between AMD and MS to build new *custom silicon* for next generation of consoles.

And yes it´s a huge announcement since AMD is working closely with MS to co-develop custom SoC which will allow backwards compatibility across all MS´s next gen devices allowing seamless integration between devices and full backwards compatibility across all generations of Xbox consoles.

I also know is that this announcement don´t have anything to do with Playstation and their strategy with AMD for the PS6, so stop comparing the two pretending that you know what´s going on, because you clearly don´t.

If Sony is working on something remotely similar, that´s remain to be seen.

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Fishy Fingers4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Some odd, deliberate wording, no branding, not 'Xbox consoles, Xbox handhelds' specifically, feels and sounds like they're building towards hardware that anyone can be used or licensed to/by themselves and other manufacturers.

Multiplatform software and hardware 'Xbox/AMD APU'.

Obscure_Observer4d ago

I guess you missed Sarah Bond´s next generation Xbox announcement this week, were she clearly states:

"I´m thrilled to share that we´ve established a strategic multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices, including, *our* next generation *Xbox consoles*."

But hey, I don´t think you´re entirely wrong, maybe MS will build their own Xbox consoles while licencing other manufactures to build and sell their own Xbox branded consoles. Who knows

BeHunted4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

I think you watched the wrong video. It's below the description, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/kprpRvsOua...

HyperMoused4d ago

Shares vision....we provide chips for money, this deal will sell many chips, we will make lots of money...good vision

Christopher4d ago

The marketing behind this is so heavy that I worry about the actual outcome. Why are they just not showing us the product, why all this talking in market speak?

Lightning774d ago

Probably because the next xbox isn't ready to release yet?

The marketing and rumors seem to be heavy out of no where. The rumor was a 27 release but it maybe it could be 26 new console launch instead.

Who knows.

Eonjay4d ago

There PR is alrways super heavy handed. No one is acutally buying an Xbox as is.
Also it is very early to be talking so much about a next gen console.

Obscure_Observer3d ago

There´s a lot of people interested on Xbox Next and its ability to run games from major stores like Steam.

We know that the PS6 is just around the corner as well, but so far, no news on what it might improve over the PS5 or PS5 Pro.

However, Sony already made public that their priority and actual focus is the PS6. So its not "very early" to talk about next gen when the very console manufactures are talking about it.

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