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.