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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Gizmodo has a great piece up on DirectX 11 and all its associated buzzwords.
It’s paradigm-breaking and synergetic, but more importantly it explains what the hell Tessellation is, how it’ll improve hardware performance even without a DX11 GPU, and has some hardware benchmarks. Check it out!
PC gamers may want to have some extra cash on-hand in a few month’s time, because both AMD and Nvidia are expected to release the “next generation” of graphics chips later this year.
How pleased is AMD? So pleased. Pleased enough with its video card accomplishments to issue a press release—and pretty product shots—of its 1 gigahertz ATI Radeon HD 4890. There just a slight catch.
Nintendo isn’t the only one stuffing its coffers with cash, thanks to the Wii’s continued success. Chip maker AMD is also pleased as punch to be selling gobs of chips—50 million of ‘em!
Processor and graphics-card manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is cutting 1,000 jobs and reducing pay for everyone else to get through terrible times for computer sales.
A hot topic this year amongst nay-sayers has been the impending “death” of the PC gaming market. Let’s hear what AMD’s senior vice president Rick Bergman has to say on the subject.
Computer processing solutions company Advanced Micro Devices is working with three leading developer to bring AMD graphics and DirectX 10.1 support to their titles: Electronic Arts Phenomic Studio and its upcoming real-time online fantasy RTS Battleforge, SEGA and its real-time futuristic military strategy title Stormrise, and NHN Games and its 3D RPG Cloud 9. Says Microsoft Games for Windows Global Director Kevin Unangst: We welcome AMD’s broad support for DirectX 10.1 compliant hardware and we’re pleased to see our newest technology brought to market so soon. One of the great advantages of PC gaming is the rapid pace at which the experiences evolve and improve.
Hit the jump for the full AMD press release.
We’re a great deal savvier than we used to be about PC hardware. No longer are the insides of a computer scary – merely dark and, depending on how neat you are, dusty. Sure, you might scratch yourself on a sharp piece of metal, or procure a burn from a toasty heatsink, but any gamer who’s owned a system longer than five years has earned his licence to fly solo in the bowels of his silicon beast.
Titles such as Crysis have raised awareness of Direct3D 10, while Supreme Commander proved that dual and quad core processors have a place in the motherboard of the average gamer.
It’s a shame then that it’s become progressively harder to identify which graphics cards or processors are better, thanks to the irrelevancy of megahertz and esoteric product names packed with hyperbole. Is an Intel E6600 better than a Q6600, because E comes first in the alphabet? Shouldn’t a GeForce 9600GT be faster than an 8800GT by the difference of 800 “whatevers” in its name? The answer would be “no” in both cases.
I recently made a few purchases for my brother, whose AMD-based system finally decided that being a working PC wasn’t hip any more. As part of the process, I had to put together a few parts that would serve him for the next few years, but wouldn’t leave him scrounging his pocket lint for food money.
Anyway, hit the jump for my recommendations.
