Maxit Mag - NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPUs to Come in mid-November

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NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPUs to Come in mid-November

Tuesday, 03 October 2006 01:03

NVIDIA's first DirectX 10-compatible GPUs, codenamed G80, are expected to be launched in the middle of November. Graphics card makers have said that GeForce 8800-based cards should show up around this time. While these cards will be available soon, DirectX 10 will not immediately be available, as it's planned as a Vista-only feature.

The GeForce 8800 utilizes Shader Model 4.0, improving the rendering capabilities of the card. ATI's competiting R600 GPU, which will also support DirectX 10, will most likely show up sometime next year. Of course, until DirectX 10 is available, they aren't at much of a disadvantage.

Windows Vista will be the only operating system able to utilize DirectX 10. Vista will continue to support DirectX 9, but it's ultimately up to the games themselves whether or not they want to use only DirectX 10. By the time games actually start using it, ATI may have already released their own DirectX 10 card, bringing some competition into the graphics card market. Until then, it looks like NVIDIA's going to be your only option for a next-generation graphics card.

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