Nvidia introduced their 3D Surround Vision as a mean for letting gamers game in 3D or watch movie in 3D, but AMD has been missing in the 3D crowd. Now AMD seemed to have a proper answer to that, though it’s not fully integrated into their Catalyst driver system.

AMD’s new 3D technology is called HD3D, and it’s going to use HDMI 1.4a. This means that it’ll work with every new 3D HDTV and monitor in existence today, and you don’t have to get any special 3D glasses from AMD. AMD’s 3D technology actually relies on the 3D profiling work from Dynamic Digital Depth’s (DDD) TriDef 3D Experience software. This software currently has over 400 titles games and applications) supported.

Games will only work on Full Screen for 3D mode, while watching Blu-ray movies can be either window-mode or full screen, with Windows running 2D at the background. By buying this TriDef 3D program from DDD for $24.99, you can easily point the application to the game’s executable file, and it’ll run the program in 3D.

The good thing about AMD’s HD3D system is that it’ll work with any HDMI 1.4a, which is very standard. However, HDMI 1.4a has a limited bandwidth of 10.2Gbps, which is only enough for letting you game at 24 frames per second in Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. Switch to 720P and you’ll be able to game with full 60 frames per second. AMD says that it’ll switch over to DisplayPort 1.2 later this year when more monitor vendors begin incorporating it, as DisplayPort 1.2 has a peak bandwidth of 17.28Gbps which is enough to enable 1080P at 60 frames per second.

SOURCE via Tom’s Hardware