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?
so all I have to do is wait....
I highly doubt we'll see any triple-A DX11
titiestitles this year. But if you look back at the g80 era, that card (and it's cripples) sold very well for a long time (even without any DX10 games) because it was the only card that could kick the X1950XTX's butt (the 7950GX2 drivers blowed at the time) in DX9 games. So, if the 5870 can wipe the floor with the GTX285 (or especially vs the GTX295), it'll sell very well.A question I have is, is DX11 a superset of DX10.1? In otherwords, if/when Nvidia supports DX11, will they be able to have their cards natively run DX10.1 codepaths in games like HawX?
as to gddr3, they bought HUGE ammounts of gddr3 from qimonda at a VERY reduced price(in part helping kill the company because they gave to good a deal to nvidia)
nvidia will milk it till they run out or till they can get the same kinda deal on gddr5, then maby we will see a card with some truely new tech from nvidia.
for now my 8800gts 512 is doing its job, no need to "upgrade"
I do hope NVIDIA catches up... Because how many titles will be released if only ATI has dx11 hardware?
specly seeing as i keep getting perf gains with this card, recently had a few games get a 20+% boost from a driver(not ones listed by nvidia as gaining anything)
Oh an flying weesel. Just to let you know, 7 is not just a gui upgrade. It's actually, a good product. Also, 7 is actually older than Vista. 7 really isn't an upgrade folks, it's what microsoft originally had planned to release from the get go but couldn't get it out on time. Vista is built from it.
they alwase planed to put out 7 within 3 years, balmer plans to get a new windows out every 2-3 years from now on, it will boost profits a few ways
1. people will buy the new one to keep up to date.
2. OEM's will have to buy new version licenses even if they still got plenty of licenses for older version that people already like.
3. training fees, adobe has done this for years, they many times put out a new version thats just different enough to need people to re-train on adobe apps, so adobe makes more off training then off the software itself.
there are more reasons but those are the top3, basically if they keep to a short os cycle they can boost sales even if the changes to the core os arent that big, just enough os changes to force people to re-train.
Windows 7's main changes are gui and the service handler is configured differently, it starts services as needed, something that really helps with perf by default so geeks like us dont gotta spend alot of time disabling/reconfiguring services.
the os core of 7 is based on vista, just as vista's core is based on server 2003 and 2003 was based on 2000(xp was another branch of the same project both are based on 2k, but 2k3 took alot more time to come out because it had to be rock stable)
I could go more into it, but 7 was not a separate branch, its just an evolution on the core the same as vista was, tho with vista they made more extensive changes to how things where managed, vista to 7 the changes are mostly cosmetic, the under the hood stuff is there but nothing that makes it a totaly different/new os.
vista sp2 should give about the same experiance without the new mac-ish taskbar :)