Comic Book Guy Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 In an internal presentation perhaps to its primary clients, NVIDIA presented support for Windows 7 DirectX Compute. For a welcome change, the slides show no signs of NVIDIA's own CUDA technology, and in turn promise huge performance gains when a Windows 7 machine is aided with an NVIDIA graphics processor. The gains NVIDIA predicts range anywhere between 2 times to 20 times over plain CPU-driven processing, focusing on media-related applications such as Cyberlink PowerDirector, MotionDSP vReveal, and of course Badaboom. DirectX Compute API will be natively built into Windows 7. It supports both existing DirectX 10 compliant GPUs, and future DirectX 11 ones. Along with pledging full support for it, NVIDIA also explains how the GPU becomes an increasingly important component of the PC, being "central to the Windows 7 experience". As a bonus tidbit, it adds that on Windows 7 the SLI multi-GPU technology works 10% faster than on Windows XP. Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterceptorX Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 10% faster then XP lol how come they didn't bother with vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Because XP is considered faster for gaming than Vista by many, even though it's negligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDEAN Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 So what nvidia cards do you need to see these gains? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master2k27 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 prob the new 300 range with direct X 11 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDEAN Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Interesting. Running an 8800 GTS now, might jump to ATI the next round of card updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winrez Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 So what nvidia cards do you need to see these gains? I believe the 8000 series on up (any card that supports physX) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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