Компания Futuremark надеется, что готовым релизом можно будет действительно гордиться, потому как усилий для его создания приложено очень много.

11.1 там новый

Direct3D 11.1 is an update to the API that ships with Windows 8.[30] The Direct3D runtime in Windows 8 features DXGI 1.2 and requires new WDDM 1.2 device drivers.[31] Preliminary version of the Windows SDK for Windows 8 Developer Preview was released on September 13, 2011.

The new API features shader tracing, support for video playback, shader processing of video resources, and on-the-fly swapping between Direct3D 10 and 11 contexts and feature levels. Direct3D 11.1 also features minor updates to the shader language, such as larger constant buffers and optional double-precision instructions, as well as improved blending modes and mandatory support for 16-bit color formats to improve the performance of entry-level GPUs such as Intel HD Graphics.[31][32]

The Platform Update for Windows 7 includes a limited set of features from Direct3D 11.1, though components that depend on WDDM 1.2 are not present.[33]