ATi R520 Longhorn WGF 1.0 Compliant !

[Blade_Runner]

Seems ATi has more tricks up their sleeves than just sm 3.0 support and awesome specs for the R520 “Fudo”

It turns out that R520 won’t just have Shader Model 3.0 it will eventually have support for upcoming Longhorn WGF 1.0 specification. WGF does not stand for Which Graphic Freak, it’s an abbreviation of Windows Graphic Foundation. This is what Microsoft has decided to call Direct3D in the future.

WGF 1.0 is actually Direct3D 9.0+ or just beyond the DirectX 9.0c specification. It’s also called DX 9.L where L possibly stands for Longhorn.

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[guru]

just read it.. nvidia already has shader 3.0 support and as far as WGF is not a huge improvement over diretcx 9.0c so i’m sure nvidia 6x series is already Longhorn compliant.

[Sheriff]

i donno if its true, but i think geforce 6 is not WGF compliant, ATI’s pr manager stated it, when he came to india

[Aces170]

Hmm WGF is mostly gonna be DX 10 and gonna be a huge improvent over dx 9.0c. Infact DX 9.0c has negligible IQ improvement over dx 9.0b or 9,0a for that matter.

[Crazy_Eddy]

WGF 1.0 is actually Direct3D 9.0+ or just beyond the DirectX 9.0c specification.

Which means WGF 1.0 is NOT DirectX 10 just a slight improvement over DirectX 9