AMD Working on DirectX 11 Support

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Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its upcoming cards. Nevertheless, for the time being, details about the new product are scarce.

As some of you already know, Microsoft is expected to jump over the DirectX 10.1 API, and to release the DirectX 11 instead. This has put quite some pressure on graphics manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD, as they need to prepare their hardware for the upcoming graphics interface. Also, AMD's DirectX 10.1-support seems rather ridiculous, as no such API will be released.

10.1,11,12...i don't care as long as we get some solid games in bulk available for it.
let the industry catch up first.
sure, the cards need to come first. still i think its too early to do research.

its a good move as MS just announced DX 11 specs two weeks ago.
they will have to be one step ahead if they want to keep up with the nvidia monopolized market.

cool move by AMD. Poor Intel

x3060 said:
still i think its too early to do research.

Its not. DX11 is set to come out by 2010 or 2011. Its time they start working on it so that they can release cards which support DX11 by Q4 2009.

IT Idiot said:
cool move by AMD. Poor Intel

typo.poor nvidia

ZOMG! He's said something more than "cool"!

T

wow, but wait; let some good dx10 games release first..

DX 10 has not yer been utilized completely

DX 11 already?

I hope its worth it

^^They're just starting development.. DX11 support will take at least another 1.5 years IMO.