AMD & Windows 7

Windows® 7 will be available October 22nd and Microsoft engineers are still hard at work putting the finishing touches on Windows® 7 to make sure it will be the best Windows OS with AMD platforms yet. Here are some of the features we are excited about.

• DirectX® 11. At Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD Demonstrated World’s First Microsoft DirectX® 11 Graphics Processor. Highlights include:
  
• Compute Shader 5.0
• Enables developers to use the general purpose computing abilities of a DirectX 11 GPU
• Tessellation:
• Enables the creation of highly realistic and high performance 3D models
• Multi-threading
• Enables improved performance in CPU bound situations
• Windows XP Mode. Any currently-shipping AMD Athlon™, AMD Phenom™, AMD Phenom II™, AMD Turion™ or AMD Opteron™ processor will include the AMD-V™ feature necessary to benefit from Windows® XP Mode in Windows® 7
• Drag-and-drop Transcode. AMD will be fully supporting the Drag and Drop transcoding application using ATI Stream technology when Windows 7 releases
• Multi-core performance. Windows 7 was made for multi-core CPUs like our AMD Phenom II Quad-Core processors for desktop and our AMD Turion Ultra Dual-Core processors for notebooks

ATI Video Converter

• ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 introduces support for the ATI video converter under Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 7 64-bit
• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Basic View) to achieve substantial performance improvements when transcoding video files