AMD is Windows 7 ready

MANILA, Philippines - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveils seven key benefits of running Windows 7 on its platform, together with the latest graphics card series from ATI, the Evergreen series.

Go green with AMD: AMD collaborated with Microsoft to develop a new AMD product-specific power management driver in Windows 7. This new driver optimizes power and performance for power state transitions. In other words, it boosts performance when needed and reduces power consumption when the devices are not utilized.

Virtualization with ease: All of AMD’s latest CPUs support Windows XP mode for Windows 7. AMD also worked closely with the Windows 7 virtualization team to improve performance

Upgradability and scalability: Apart from the latest platforms, AMD also provided Microsoft up and coming platforms to ensure compatibility with Windows 7 across both current and future platforms.

Evergreen Christmas: Currently, ATI’s Evergreen series is the only graphics card series to be compatible with Windows 7 DirectX 11, with over 20 other DirectX 11 titles in development and more on the way, gamers can be ready for a whole host of DirectX 11 gaming experiences this Christmas with the ATI Evergreen series.

Harnessing that extra power: DirectX 11 Compute Shader is a new API in Windows 7 that enables the utilization of the massive parallel processing power of modern GPUs. What this means is that developers are able to bring you richer experiences such as video transcoding, game physics simulation and Artificial Intelligence.

Photostream from Facebook: With AMD Fusion Media Explorer, a new and free feature from AMD, you can easily view and organize not only the images on your desktop but the pictures of your friends and family on Facebook.

64bit capability: All AMD Athlon, Opteron, Neo and Turion microprocessors are 64bit capable.  So there is no need to worry if the microprocessor you are buying or already have can handle Windows 7 64bit version.