Hardware Drivers:
The following vendors provide drivers with hardware GPU support for DXIL:
NVIDIA r378 drivers (r378.49 and later) provide experimental mode support for DXIL and shader model 6. This is an early beta version to enable developers to try out DXIL and the new shader model 6 features – Wave Math and int64. Only DXIL version 0.7 (beta) is accepted by the r378 driver. Experimental mode support for DXIL v1.0 will be provided in a future driver release.
AMD has released its first driver with experimental mode support for DXIL and Shader Model 6: Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.3.1, which can be downloaded from
support.amd.comIt uses and requires DXIL v1.0. Using this driver, all of the execution tests pass except for the 2 wave intrinsics tests. The next driver release, 17.3.2, has fixes so all of the execution tests pass.