Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11 *Official April Fools Thread!*

"This is breaking news. Microsoft has not only decided to support ray tracing in DirectX 11, but they will also be basing it on Intel's x86 ray-tracing technology and get this ... it will be out by the end of the year! In this article, we will examine what ray tracing is all about and why it would be superior to the current raster-based technology. As for performance, well, let Intel dazzle you with some numbers. Here's a quote from the article: 'You need not worry about your old raster-based DirectX 10 or older games or graphics cards. DirectX 11 will continue to support rasterization. It just includes support for ray-tracing as well. There will be two DirectX 11 modes, based on support by the application and the hardware.'"

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/03/31/1423247.shtml

I smell trouble for nvidia. They lack a x86 licence. AMD was right to purchase ATI. I just hope they kick Intel in the nuts. Its not like there is a tonne of Dx10 games out yet. DX11 will take at least 2-3 years. Maybe by then windows 7 will be out.

APRIL FOOLS! All april fools jokes found on tech sites are to be posted in this thread. Thank you, the staff.

good find, i guess this is going to push big green to buy VIA then.

clould be april fools, though

Nice find. I wonder what the future will hodl for Nvidia now. Glad they cleaned house these past 2 rounds!!

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clould be april fools, though

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Wouldnt it have to be on April fools day??? thats not until tomorrow.

nah, news like that often starts appearing a day earlier
nevertheless, would be great if true

Old DX10 cards?! :(

Ugh. I'm still rocking DX9. Cool thing though that DX11 is getting finalized.

Guys, it's the aprils fools joke...look at the poster... C Lee Yu(Silly You)! Then look at the date on the article. They did an april fools joke last year stating that Phenom had an R600 built onto it as well, for those who forgot. Techarp usually does do an april fools article as far fetched as this.

Read the comments section people, do you really think companies make press statements like that?

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It is not relevant. Our customers do not play games. Neither should you.

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Originally Posted by Intel

This is a great day for Intel. For too long, those wannabes in Santa Clara and Ontario have basked in all the attention. Come November, the CPU will reign supreme again! Why buy graphics cards when all you need is an Intel multi-core processor?

I can't give you guys much more details than this. NDA restrictions and all that, but we have been running Crysis on Nehalem samples and some Core 2 processors. I can't quote exact numbers but the QX9650 is getting frame rates in the upper 30s. Nehalem samples are currently 50-60% faster but we think it will be closer to twice the performance at launch. Eat that, GPU!

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I'll leave this open for a few hours, then it's closed as an april fools joke.

Here we go with the April Fools jokes..

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Nice find. I wonder what the future will hodl for Nvidia now. Glad they cleaned house these past 2 rounds!!

Wouldnt it have to be on April fools day??? thats not until tomorrow.

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Original article is here:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=526&pgno=0

Date : 01 April 2008

The "Commentary by Various Companies" page makes it's clear it's a joke..
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=526&pgno=2

Nice try nevertheless :) .

Edit: Diltech beat me to it. good catch. :p:

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good find, i guess this is going to push big green to buy VIA then.

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Afaik VIA's x86 license is like amd's so you still cannot make x86 procs whatever
you do.

Maybe this is april fools though.:clap:

lol, look at the article tags: graphics, aprilfools, fake, raytracing, microsoft (tagging beta)

It would be a nice push from Intel and MS point of view.
We all know how they love each other. Trying to push this further by channeling money to software developers to make ray tracing software doesn't sound like something they aren't thinking about.
Intel will need some benchmark to excel in and ray tracing just might be the one.

That is unless this is all a good joke. :D

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lol, look at the article tags: graphics, aprilfools, fake, raytracing, microsoft (tagging beta)

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that was the first thing i saw

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What we fear is the inclusion of some codes that strongly favour Intel's microarchitecture. They are getting close to 100% scalability while we are hitting much lower percentages. We will be lobbying Microsoft to remove such blatantly anti-competitive actions by Intel or we may have to come up with a much better processor. In the meantime, I hope you will tell your readers to buy more AMD and ATI products. Times are tough for us. :(

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XS is going to become one fun place tomorrow. i propose a Fools thread where all bunked storeys go :D

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XS is going to become one fun place tomorrow. i propose a Fools thread where all bunked storeys go :D

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I agree, infact, this thread will start it... Title change time!

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I agree, infact, this thread will start it... Title change time!

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awesome!!:up: :up: :rofl: :rofl:

Ouch. I am retarded.

S3 Graphics acquired by Qimonda!

AMD Phenom successor is AMD K6-III based (german)

HD DVD ist back, Blu-Ray trembles (german)

Fouad's boys going at it too ;) :

Samsung E41 wipes the floor with Area 51 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Apple switches to Windows on iPhone

And not sure 'bout this one too:

A hot Nvidia card pictured

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Fouad's boys going at it too ;) :
And not sure 'bout this one too:

A hot Nvidia card pictured

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And I am sure it is one of those. They'll atleast do dual DVI and a HDMI with something like this.

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And I am sure it is one of those. They'll atleast do dual DVI and a HDMI with something like this.

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it's agp.

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Exclusive Just hours after acquiring BitTorrent Incorporated for $53bn in cash and stock, Comcast has shutdown the tiny San Francisco company, assuring customers and shareholders that its doors will never reopen.

Last week, the big-name American ISP told the world it would find a way of managing its cable network without discriminating against BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic. But the fix has come much sooner than expected.

"There were two ways forward," said Comcast executive vice president David Cohen in a canned statement. "We could either reconfigure our network to treat BitTorrent like any other application or buy BitTorrent Inc. and do our best to destroy the entire protocol. At $53bn, destroying the protocol was the cheaper option."

Cohen said the company also intends to purchase Apple and IBM, with an eye on destroying both iChat and Lotus Notes – two other applications Comcast has been unable to manage without annoying all but three other people on the planet. "Buying Apple will cost us a pretty penny," Cohen explained. "But it’s still cheaper than letting iChat run like it’s supposed to run."

The Federal Trade Commission has yet to approve Comcast’s acquisition of BitTorrent, but Comcast doesn’t care. "We approved the deal on our own," the company told The Wall Street Journal. "Congress doesn't empower the FTC to approve mergers and acquisitions involving Comcast or any other company that has no respect for government authority."

After rubber-stamping its own deal, Comcast promptly fired BitTorrent’s entire staff, razed its offices, unplugged its data center, and forced founder Bram Cohen to change his name. "I will not be confused with a bandwidth hog," said David Cohen.

When we phoned Comcast for comment, a company spokesman denied that we existed. When we assured him that we did, he said "That’s not what I’m told."

Yes, BitTorrent Inc. oversees only a portion of BitTorrent traffic on the net, but according to independent researcher Jake Gittes, Comcast has also been systematically poisoning BitTorrent users for nearly a year and a half. "I first noticed the bodies in late 2006," Gittes told us. "And by the spring, I could prove Comcast was killing almost 300 file-sharers a month."

Speaking to The Journal, Comcast acknowledged the killings, but it preferred to call them "reasonable network management". ®

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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...es_bittorrent/

I seen the bodies too!!! :D

April Fools! :D

LOL..the April Fools are getting more an more far fetched

Lol This made my day of all the April fools jokes.

oh, you had me for the first 3 paragraphs... :ROTF:

LOL. I won't believe any news I read today.

lol i was about to check and see if my bit torrent worked, you got me!!!!

lmao you had me till "comcast plans to buy ibm" ...

why do april fools have to be so far fetched? I mean something like nvidia to launch yet another bunch of G92 refreshs which will be called 9700 GS, GT, GTS and GTX would probably find more "victims":p:

for a tiny company 53billion is where i figured it was joke, but since the actual April fools thread is somewhat "lackluster" i figured i'd make a new

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lol i was about to check and see if my bit torrent worked, you got me!!!!

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Same here, good one :rolleyes:

53 Billion? WTF. Has to be April 1st.

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A few initial documents reveal that xGT300 has already passed the initial design phase and that alpha-stage dies have begun to tap out. The chip is different from the G80/G92/GT200 in several ways. First, the x in the name, it means multiple cores (think Larrabee to some extent).

The top-end piece has four cores, each with 64 shaders, 18 TMUs (each with 2 addressing & filling units), and 12 ROPS. This may not sound like much, but the system is designed such that it breaks the image down into four parts and renders each one separately. Oh, and the cores are going to run at well over a 1 ghz each with the shaders more than double that.

After taking a step back to a 256 bit bus with the 9800 GTX after the 8800's 384 bit bus. Well, the xGT300 is being prepped with a 512-bit bus and is expected to have its memory measured in gigabytes and not megabytes.

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more info:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/real-next-gen-nvidia-specs-leaked.ars

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more info:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/real-next-gen-nvidia-specs-leaked.ars

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Wow... trying to rickroll people... How sad.

All youtubes featured vids were a rick roll:D

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html