DirectX 11 GPU War Heats up Between AMD and NVIDIA
We’ll certainly have an interesting fall, as DirectX 11 GPU war is heating up between the two chip giants – AMD and NVIDIA. AMD announced the Radeon HD 5800 series (Cypress) graphics cards on Sep 23rd, and is now busy planning for HD 5700 series (Juniper) aiming at sub $200 mainstream market for October launch. Though NVIDIA is slower to jump the DirectX 11 bandwagon, the company is cooking up GT300 and even more to fight back.
AMD will add HD 5890 and the top-end dual-GPU card to its offerings by the end of this year, and the entry-level products are expected to arrive in Q1 2010.
NVIDIA is concentrating on GT300 which is scheduled for launch in December. Though the specs are vague yet, sources suggest that AIC partners will get to design the GT300 cards themselves, which means no more boring reference cards.
Additionally, NVIDIA is working on the entry-level G210, low-end GT220 and performance GT 240. GeForce G210 based on GT218 is a sub $40 entry-level card with 24 shaders and DDR2 memories on 64-bit interface, while GT 220 based on GT216 has 48 shaders and DDR3 memories on 128-bit interface.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Just when I want to see 9300 / 9400 IGP succesor with 32 pipeline double from before. Why 24 not 32 pipeline? Like it or not unless Nvidia is crazy to be better, this GPU (GT2xx) will be at best support DX 10.1
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I am waiting mainstream DX 11 card. If only ATI has much application support and doesn’t EOL it driver so fast (My Gigabyte 690G driver), that I wlll buy ATI. Furtunatelly Nvidia don’t rebranding 9800 GTX as a low end GPU, that will make so much power. Last thing where is Geforce Power? The one that can make double dual GT300 card zero W idle power cope with Geforce motherboard?
September 27th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
I looking forward for a card similar in performance to the Radeon HD 4830 but from the 5000 series (dx 11 + 40nm). I think if this card exists, it should be below $100. Don’t you guys agree?
September 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Is there any reason to believe that any Nvidia below GT300 (i.e. GT2xx cards) have DirectX 11? If no, why would anybody want them? Why would Nvidia even be releasing them now that DX11 has been announced? Are computer buyers really that stupid, or will there be deceptive marketing involved?
September 28th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I think both of them, as usual
September 29th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
DB, do you remember when dx10 cards came out at the same time as dx9? or when 10 cards came out when 10.1 cards came out?
guess what
nobody does because it didnt matter
by the time there is a direct x 11 game that matters, all of these cards will be old, and every card will be dx11.
so right now dx11 support does not matter. if nvidia chip is better with dx10 then that is enough.
even dx10 doesnt matter. almost every game is dx9 and you cant tell the difference with dx10 on.