Intel First To Roll Out DirectX 10 Accelerator
And again our colleagues from HKEPC uncovered some interesting information. This time it's related to the future chipset Intel G965, also known as 'Broadwater'. As you remember, it will be designed for Conroe processors.
The chipset itself will support 533/800/1066 MHz FSB, dual-channel DDR2-800 and will have integrated Intel GMA 965 graphics.
The information is related exactly to the latter: they claim chipset's integrated graphics will support DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0. (Click to enlarge.)
According to preliminary information, the operating clock rate will be 400 MHz. Though it might still be higher at the moment of announcement. The graphics engine will share up to 256MB of memory.
The chip will also support 16x anisotropic filtering and 32-bit floating-point precision (vs. 24-bit of GMA950).
Therefore already in Q3 2006 we might witness the first DirectX 10 compatible products. However the software support will be provided only with Windows Vista, scheduled to early 2007.
Note that this information is unofficial.
Source: HKEPC
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