Tuesday, April 21st 2009
ATI Months Ahead of NVIDIA with DirectX 11 GPU Schedule?
Never in recent times have we seen NVIDIA and ATI locked in such fierce market competition. The two are seen exchanging blows with product launches and price-cuts. ATI looks to be in the mood to take this competition to the next-level: DirectX 11 compliant GPUs. Microsoft has already released DirectX 11 with the pre-release versions of Windows 7 operating system. A recent report by Heise Online indicates that AMD will be ready with an ATI RV870, the company's first DirectX 11 GPU by the end of July, or early August.
Another source, The Inquirer, states NVIDIA's GT300 GPU launch for October. If you were to count these claims, AMD is put two to three months ahead of NVIDIA when it comes to time-to-market introduction of a new GPU generation. Now, whether you have DirectX 11 compliant software that makes use of the new technology available that soon is a different thing altogether. This will determine the practicality of a DirectX 11 GPU in July/August.
Sources:
X-bit Labs, Heise Online, The Inquirer
Another source, The Inquirer, states NVIDIA's GT300 GPU launch for October. If you were to count these claims, AMD is put two to three months ahead of NVIDIA when it comes to time-to-market introduction of a new GPU generation. Now, whether you have DirectX 11 compliant software that makes use of the new technology available that soon is a different thing altogether. This will determine the practicality of a DirectX 11 GPU in July/August.
83 Comments on ATI Months Ahead of NVIDIA with DirectX 11 GPU Schedule?
Oh well, time will tell (and hey, even if DX10 cards can do it... they wont miss the marketing opportunity)
Native DX11 cards will render it all faster.
I hope they dont mean it, the way you say.
That being said, since DX10 has been a joke, what makes people think DX11 is going to be adopted any faster?
I'm really interested to see ATI beat nvidia to the punch, but if there's nothing that will take advantage of it, then I say both companies should take their time with it, not rush something out just to claim the title of "First dx11 card." Your average informed consumer won't care about a title like that when dx11 games won't come out until long after both companies can provide dx11 cards.
Obviously, this doesn't mean that DX11 games will be unplayable on DX10 hardware, just as DX10 games still run on DX9 hardware. Hell, DX11 games will probably still run on DX9 hardware.
As for one side being on quicker schedule than the other, I say we all just wait and see what really happens instead of relying on rumors.
That means a GPGPU version of warp11 could theoretically run something to the level of crysis in pure emulation. Keep in mind however they'd only be emulating a few features here, not the whole GPU.
Reason being because I currently have a DX9 Nvidia card so give me a slack >_>, I'll be skipping DX10 altogether =).
I can't wait to see ATi kick some ass and drinking cups of tea ^_^.
I just have the issue waiting 3 months lol...
Dx11 is gonna be so much better, cause alot has changed on the development side.
Its easier to program with, it uses less resources, its faster, and you got less limits when you make stuff.
I think, from a personal aspect, that dx11 is gonna be the new dx9 - That in a year or 2, everything is gonna be made for dx11.
And dx10\dx10.1 cards are gonna run dx11 - just with less features. That also means that you dont have to have a code path for dx10 and dx11 in the same game - only dx11 and it automaticly supports dx10. Thats the beauty of dx11 :D