We suspected HD 7000 series GCN parts were DirectX 11.2 compatible for quite some time and now it’s official.ĪMD says the HD 7000 series is fully compatible with DX 11.2 with a new driver, which should appear in the Windows 8.1 launch timeframe, in October. All it takes to make them DX 11.2 enabled is a driver tweak. However, there’s still no DirectX 11.2 hardware out there, sort of.ĪMD’s GCN-based GPUs are fully compatible with DirectX 11.2 at least in theory. So fret not, Radeon 7000-series owners, you will be able to fully utilize DX 11.2 and all its features once games start implementing them, and assuming you upgrade to Windows 8.1.Windows 8.1 will bring DirectX 11.2 support, which includes plenty of performance tweaks, new Direct3D features such as Tiled Resources and other goodies. 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.” 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. 'The Radeon HD 7000 series hardware architecture is fully DirectX 11.2-capable when used with a driver that enables this feature. Specifically, Maximum PC quoted AMD in stating the following: The updated driver will reportedly be released sometime in October to coincide with Microsoft’s release of Windows 8.1. The issue is not one of hardware, however, and an updated driver can allow the GCN-based 7000 series hardware to fully support the latest DirectX 11.2 API and major new features such as tiled resources. As a result, the graphics cards do not currently fully support the API. As it turns out, Microsoft’s final DirectX 11.2 specification ended up being slightly different than what AMD expected. This was inferred from a statement made by AMD engineer Laylah Mah in an interview with c1 Magazin.įortunately, the GCN-based cards will fully support DirectX 11.2 once an updated driver has been released. Earlier this month, several websites reported that AMD’s latest Graphics Core Next (GCN) based graphics cards (7000 series and 8000 series OEM lines) would not be compatible with the Windows 8.1-only DirectX 11.2 API.

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