{"id":312,"date":"2009-09-23T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:04:54","slug":"first-directx11-gpu-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/first-directx11-gpu-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"First DirectX11 GPU Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/Pages\/AMDHomePage.aspx\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/Pages\/AMDHomePage.aspx\">AMD<\/a> shipped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/desktop\/graphics\/ati-radeon-hd-5000\/hd-5870\/Pages\/ati-radeon-hd-5870-overview.aspx\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/desktop\/graphics\/ati-radeon-hd-5000\/hd-5870\/Pages\/ati-radeon-hd-5870-overview.aspx\">Radeon HD 5870<\/a>, the first GPU to support the DirectX11 feature set.&nbsp; Most of the resources have been doubled in comparison to AMD&#8217;s previous top GPU, including two triangle rasterization units. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techreport.com\/articles.x\/17618\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.techreport.com\/articles.x\/17618\">The Tech Report has a nice writeup<\/a> &#8211; to help make sense of the various counts of ALUs \/ &#8220;wavefronts&#8221; \/ cores \/ etc.&nbsp; I recommend reading <a href=\"http:\/\/s09.idav.ucdavis.edu\/talks\/02_kayvonf_gpuArchTalk09.pdf\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/s09.idav.ucdavis.edu\/talks\/02_kayvonf_gpuArchTalk09.pdf\">the slides from Kayvon Fatahalian&#8217;s excellent presentation at SIGGRAPH this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, AMD shipped the Radeon HD 5870, the first GPU to support the DirectX11 feature set.&nbsp; Most of the resources have been doubled in comparison to AMD&#8217;s previous top GPU, including two triangle rasterization units. The Tech Report has a nice writeup &#8211; to help make sense of the various counts of ALUs \/ &#8220;wavefronts&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,49,101],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-amd","tag-direct3d-11","tag-directx-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}