Sunday, April 29th 2007
Ten DirectX 10 products are coming from AMD this May
AMD will be launching ten DirectX 10 capable products towards the end of May 2007. They will be "covering the entire stack" - affordable to high-end - with their series. AMD's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer also commented that "we do not do soft launches," so there will be no waiting for retail stores to have the video cards in stock.
AMD's main competitor regarding video cards, NVIDIA, already has had a series of discrete DirectX 10 cards available to consumers. Although NVIDIA's line does span from entry-level to high-end, they do not have ten DirectX 10 products.
According to DailyTech: there will four entry-level/home-theater and three affordable mid-range cards. Which leaves three possible products, out of the ten, for the high-end niche.
Source: AMD Earnings Transcript via X-bit labs
AMD's main competitor regarding video cards, NVIDIA, already has had a series of discrete DirectX 10 cards available to consumers. Although NVIDIA's line does span from entry-level to high-end, they do not have ten DirectX 10 products.
According to DailyTech: there will four entry-level/home-theater and three affordable mid-range cards. Which leaves three possible products, out of the ten, for the high-end niche.
Source: AMD Earnings Transcript via X-bit labs
37 Comments on Ten DirectX 10 products are coming from AMD this May
So no more CF Editions, and so do no more different card Crossfire.
nVidia didnt do that.Their still launching there low end stuff now.
I think if I bump the mem to 780 I should be doing very well.. hopefully it did own fear @ 1280x1024 when I had it OC'd good.. hopefully it will do good @1680x1050. :)
Should give me an extra 6 months before I upgrade... in the mean time I can buy other stuffs.
4 entry-level/home-theater cards
3 affordable
?3? high-end
DailyTech/Tomshardware wrote up a breakdown of the series more than a month ago
Here are descriptions of the 4 entry-level/home-theater and the 3 affordable-mid-range cards:
images.dailytech.com/nimage/4140_large_AMD_RV610_RV630.png
the integrated-graphics-chipset was hopeful speculation :)
I've historically chosen what gave the best bang for the buck, varying between ATI and Nvidia cards (and between Intel and AMD for that matter), and I Iook forwards to making another informed decision in a few months!
hmm...and still all goes in benifit of the consumers :)