Have you not read the news on this site for the past week or not heard about DiRT 2 being the 1st DX11 title named that will be out not too long from now.
DiRT 2 DX11 about as much as Bioshock was DX10...
Most of the early "DX11" games will be DX10 games with a few generally unnoticable additions. What DX version the game uses, or even what version the card supports, isn't really important to me. Good gameplay is what is important, and the horsepower of the card is what I'm worried about.
From what I've heard, it's 27W (!) while idling and 185-ish at load. Btw, I don't know if you've seen the cooler pictures, but the card seems to have exhausts on both sides. Some think that the front one is intake, but given the construction of the fan, it has to be exhaust.
I'm still gonna WC it and see what NV has to say later on
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With power saving features, I would believe 27w at idle, but I don't care about idle, even the current ATi cards are quiet at idle. And at 185w at load, you are looking at more than a GTX295.
And I have seen the cooler design, and the two openning at the front of the card are decoration only it seems. There is no way they are intakes, as they face the exhaust part of the fan. And it looks like the fan is actually blocked off from the fan entirely. If they aren't, then the cool air being sucked in from the fan is just being exhausted right out the holes, not cooling anything, making them useless. Either way, they don't help the situation with the extremely small exhaust at the back of the card, this will limit airflow, causing higher temps, and force the fan to work harder and louder.
We will have to see when the card is actually released, but that is just my opinion after seeing the pictures so far. And yes, I'm well aware that this might not be the final design, and they might reduce or re-arrange the connectors on the card.