AMD plans GPGPU SDK updates including DirectX 11 support
 

AMD has announced that they planning new updates to its SDK to further increase the ease and efficiently of software development using future versions of the Stream SDK. The improvements will reduce time and effort needed to produce GPU accelerated applications running on multiple platforms using industry standard API’s and enhanced support for C/C++

Through a series of upgrades over the next 18 months AMD will add full support for DirectX 11. DirectX 11 is expected to build upon the already outstanding performance of DirectX 10.1 for 3-D graphics rendering and gaming control.

It is also being designed to introduce a host of new technologies aimed at making it easier for programmers to create general purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) accelerated applications that can run on any Windows Vista powered platform.



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