Does Wii U supports DX11?

[JEMC]

Soleron said:

JEMC said:

Soleron said:

TheShape31 said:

 Don't get people too excited with threads like this. DX10 is confirmed, but that's where Wii U's capabilities end.

It uses an R700 GPU, so DX11 is confirmed, or at least its featureset is present on the hardware.

Weren't the HD 5xxx series of cards the first ones to be DX 11? The HD 4xxx series, the ones that used the R700 chip, were DX10 cards.

Yep, I was thinking of DX10.1. But it has a tesselator, so there's only a few features missing.

DX10.1 contains a lot as well, but Nvidia never supported it so it didn't get traction. It should look better than DX10 anyway.

True. And since most devs don't use DX when developing for consoles, it's a bit less important having DX 11 if the hardware is good enough.

lilbroex said:

JEMC said:

Weren't the HD 5xxx series of cards the first ones to be DX 11? The HD 4xxx series, the ones that used the R700 chip, were DX10 cards.

That would only be true if it were using a stock GPU base like the 360 and PS3, but even then, those two had some augmentations to do things the stock cards could not. Nintendo has never used a stock CPU or GPU. They've always used completely custom made components.

The Wii U can have whatever they specified.

Not only Nintendo, but also Microsoft and Sony use custom parts for their consoles. It's nothing new.

Also you can only do certain modifications to the GPU until going with another GPU a is more viable or even cheaper option. And so far all rumors have agreed that it uses a R7xx based GPU.