Archive for May, 2009
DirectX 11 cards coming sooner than expected
Posted by Dan in PC Hardware on May 27th, 2009
At the end of last year AMD were warning drooling gamers that we’d have to wait until the end of this year before they’d show us any directx 11 lurve, but it looks like the game has changed.
Yesterday AMD confirmed that they have several 40nm cards coming out this year including the high end 5870 X2, based on the R800 GPU. This means it’s likely we’ll be seeing the first batch of dx11 cards a few months earlier than expected, in the form of the Radeon 5850 and 5870.
Nvidia will hit back a few months later with the GTX300 line-up, also 40nm.
ATI: Radeon 5850, 5870 X2 to feature 40nm cores
Posted by Dan in ATI, Graphics cards, PC Hardware on May 26th, 2009
The folks at Fudzilla are reporting that they’ve just got confirmation from ATI on the eagerly awaited 5850 and 5870 X2 cards. ATI’s DirectX 11 high-end card, codenamed R800 is made of two 40nm GPUs.
With an announcement on the X2 cards coming so soon, it seems like the flagship cards are probably just around the corner.
Geforce GTX 360 and 380 coming soon?
Posted by Dan in Graphics cards, Nvidia, PC Hardware on May 24th, 2009
While it’s likely that Nvidia’s new line of DirectX 11 compatible cards will be released sometime in Q4 this year, what we’re not sure of is the name.
After working their way through a fairly standard naming system from GeForce 2 to 9 over the last ten years or so, Nvidia had to change convention when naming the latest range or else add an extra digit. Therefore, the far meatier sounding GTX 2 range was born. It seems likely than Nvidia will follow suit and release this as the GTX300 range, with the GTX360 and 380. News of GTX375 and 395 models and X2 versions are still anybody’s guess at the moment.
Update: There are rumors from the Computex ‘09 show that Nvidia’s DirectX11 range won’t be ready until the first half of 2010. However, with AMD/ATi demonstrating their own DX11 hardware at Computex this week, it’s unlikely that Nvidia will allow ATi such a large head-start.