AMD’s next generation graphics circuit is code-named RV870 and for being a graphics circuit we will see relatively soon things have been all too quiet. Some sparse information has surfaced that confirms RV870 being AMD’s first DirectX 11 graphics circuit, in fact it will be the first DX11 card on the market. AMD is said to be planning a late June launch with availability in August.
NVIDIA is of course also working on a DX11 chip but looks to be left behind since recent rumors suggests that GT300 will not appear before October, in other words two months after AMD launches its first DirectX 11 GPU.
Even of the DirectX 11 standard will enable new graphical effects in games and improve performance with support for multi-core processors. Also the GPGPU functionality will be improved with DirectX 11, something NVIDIA will use in the development of CUDA.
There is no reason to dismiss NVIDIA, but it does look like AMD will beat them to it, with a margin too, and launch a DirectX 11 compatible GPU.
