Soleron said:
Yes it does. DirectX 11 needs to be supported in hardware as well as software for it to run, and their current cards don't support many DX11 features in hardware (notably tesselation). Early next year is when I would put their DX11 cards too, though they may do a paper launch (no real availability) late this year. -- Are you running a 5850 or 5870? Because those are the only cards that will benefit from this Vista DX11 support. |
I have read from many places that DirectX 11 should add some features and improve performance of even current DirectX 10 cards. Newer cards benefit more from new features but it doesn't mean older cards can't benefit some too. At least MS have said that they have improved multicore CPU usage (yes, CPU not GPU) with DirectX 11 which might explain better results in many cases. After all DirectX is overall gaming API, it's not just about GPU.
