GeForce 8800: Here Comes the DX10 Boom. geforce 8800 uk. Nvidia has been working with DX10 for as long as Microsoft has been developing the standard. As our DX10 preview article concluded, a unified architecture will get more gains out of the shader units as they can be utilized more efficiently than a fixed function layout....

R600: Finally DX10 Hardware from ATI. r600 finally dx10 hardware from ati uk. We have waited for DX10 hardware from ATI for over six months since Nvidia launched G80. Last month, Nvidia made its third DX10 offering in the form of GeForce 8600 and 8500 cards....

We put the demos to the test on a high-powered Dell XPS system, to find out if DX10 truly makes a difference.. A while back, we took an extensive look at demos of the highly anticipated PC game Crysis, and compared video of the Windows XP version running DirectX9 to the new Windows Vista version running DX10 (see the THG video on Crysis). Now the bad news: is DX10 all that it's cracked up to be? The short answer is "yes," but the improvements are small, and it will take a keen eye and a real appreciation for graphics detail to tell the difference between the DX9 and DX10 versions. In addition, we had the system's SLI disabled to start off with We did this for a couple reasons; first, the Dell's Nvidia control panel had SLI disabled at its default setting, and second, enabling SLI was completely useless without downloading Nvidia's recent SLI driver for DX10....

And while there was a noticeable upgrade in some key graphics areas, there wasn't a huge difference between the console and PC versions of the game (more on the differences between the DX9 and DX10 versions later in this series). Therefore, it's likely the game isn't even coming close to using DX10 at its full potential. It will be some time before a game arrives that was designed in native DX10 and built to realize the full advantage of the new technology. Still, there are games built specifically for the PC - rather than console ports - that are utilizing DX10 on Vista....

GeForce 8800: Here Comes the DX10 Boom. geforce 8800 uk. Nvidia has been working with DX10 for as long as Microsoft has been developing the standard. Staying close to DX10 specifications, GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS fully comply with the DX10 standard with Shader Model 4.0, various data storage and transmitting specifications, Geometry Shaders and Stream Out. While you have seen what DX10/D3D10 compliant hardware should operate, let's look at how Nvidia gets the job done....

• -GeForce 8800: Here Comes the DX10 Boom
• -GeForce 8800: Here Comes the DX10 Boom
• -GeForce 8800: Here Comes the DX10 Boom