New
released Windows
8 operating system just around the corner, This new
features that promise to make this OS as better than previous Windows
7.But according their officials they says
that Hardware acceleration is a point one considers while upgrading an OS
or shifting to another OS. So they are giving out information on the new
hardware acceleration features available to client applications in the Windows
8.
According
to Microsoft team, with Windows
8 OS we set out to enable all
applications to have the beautiful and high-performance graphics enabled by
modern graphics hardware. In a post on the Building Windows
8 blog, Microsoft’s graphics group program manager Rob Copeland explains,
“Graphics performance on Windows depends on both the operating system
and the hardware system, comprised of the CPU, the GPU (graphics processing
unit), and the associated display driver. To ensure that we could deliver a
great experience for new Metro style apps, we needed to make sure that both the
software platform and the hardware system would deliver great performance. In
the past we’ve used many different benchmarks and apps to measure the
performance of DirectX. These have been largely focused on 3D games. While games
are still very important, we knew that many of these existing ways to measure
graphics performance did not tell us everything we needed to know for
graphics-intensive, 2D, mainstream apps. So, we created new scenario-focused
tests and metrics to track our progress.”
Frame
rate, glitch count, time to first frame, memory utilization and CPU utilization
were the metrics used in the tests to determine the graphics performance of Windows 8. And the
result, based on work carried out on adding DirectX hardware acceleration to
Microsoft apps including Internet Explorer 9, Windows Live Mail and Windows
Live Messenger, delivers best possible graphics performance for general 2D
applications. Text-rendering performance is boosted up to 336 percent over
Windows 7, whereas geometry rendering has also received a boost using a DirectX
11.1 feature called Target Independent Rasterization or TIR.
Earlier this
week, we had reported about some new leaked screenshots of the Windows 8 Metro
and how Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned in making its new OS a success
with its users. Going by the screenshots, the new OS does look more revamped
and refreshed. The screenshots suggest that the OS promises a host of changes
including a boot screen with the new Metro-style
logo, Internet Explorer 10 that interacts with the color of the Windows
8 theme, new color picker options for the desktop UI, additional Metro
inspired wallpapers and backgrounds for lock screen.
Microsoft’s new
operating system is special for a number of reasons. It is going to be
available for both desktops and tablets. It will also be available for ARM
devices through an operating system called Windows RT, which includes the
all-new Metro user interface. PCs, notebooks and x86 tablets will have access
to the standard Windows 8 operating system, which will include both the new Metro
user interface as well as the traditional desktop user interface. The Metro
user interface is designed specifically for tablets and touchscreens.
Windows
8 Release to Manufacturers
(RTM) build will be available in the first week of August and Windows RT PCs
will reach the general audience by October this year.
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