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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Microsoft ships Shader Model 6.9 in DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.619

https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-ships-shader-model-6-9-in-directx-12-agility-sdk-1-619

This is the sort of stuff that really shows how forward thinking Nvidia's architecture really is. It is nuts that not only does Turing has feature support for certain things that not even RX7000 or Intel Arc A series has support for but there are certain things that not even RX9000 series has support for but Turing does. It also shows how good Nvidia is at supporting their older architectures, even providing a software emulation path for some of these features when possible.

Now the question is if this is forward-thinking by NVidia... or Microsoft simply taking the Nvidia market dominance and running with it as it's standard?

It's also interesting that the two marked as "preview" are both supported by AMD and Intel but for NVidia it only says "Contact your developers relations representative", and that the second one seems to be supported by RDNA 3/3.5 - but not RDNA4, unless left out for space reasons.

Well considering how closely MS works with AMD, I am sure if Radeon had exclusive features they would put it in as well. It wouldn't surprise if Radeon implements these missing features with RDNA 5 however. And I would consider it to be forward thinking because Turing had majority these features when it released back in 2018. Both Radeon and Intel could have implemented them all this time but they chose not to.

As for the second part, it sounds like those are under development as a driver update instead of a strictly "unsupported."