sandybridge dx11 minus tessellation

[ydnas7]

Has anyone here had any success running DX11 on sandybridge IGP with Tessellation turned off?

 

[Arkadrel]

Current Sandy Bridge chips only support DirectX 10.1.

For that I believe they use alot of "work arounds", so even if it says 10.1... yeah...

If you want a IGP that has directx 11, you should get a Llano, or wait to see how well Intels Ivy Bridge does with Directx 11.

Whats the point of worrying about DX11 not being in Sandybridge???...

The intergrated GPU's simply are not powerful enough to be of any use whatsoever in DX11 gaming...

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They are trying to dull one of the selling points of the AMD Fusion series against the Sandy Bridge APUs. AMD will (and already has) come out firing, showing off their fully integrated DX11 support. It's all about marketing, and AMD comes out looking like they are the more advanced product, since they already have DX11 incorporated. In marketing, there is a simple axiom: "Doesn't matter if it really matters, only matters if it sounds like it matters." We buy products all the time that have cool little bells and whistles that, in reality, never get used. Perception is king.

 

[itsmydamnation]

i say DX11 matters more for SB/LLano then DX10.1, why? mulithreaded drivers. if a game is DX11 you can take advantage of this and it gives a good performace boost. the performance of llano GPU will be pretty good i imange even better when considering the cost.

 

[ydnas7]

the reason for the question was to gauge how much development was required from sandybridge igp to ivybridge igp. if there are any examples of dx11 games loading/running on sandybridge, (even with problems) then we came assume that ivybridge should be able to do dx11. if there are no examples of dx11 on sandybridge, then ivybridge is less likely to do a decent job of dx11.

 

[Arkadrel]

there are no exsamples of sandybridge running directx11... because its not designed to <.<

Current Sandy Bridge chips only support DirectX 10.1.

afaik, dx10.1 is all sandy bridge can do, and it uses work arounds for alot of it.