ATI has won the PR prize of being the first company to produce a graphics card compatible with DirectX 11, effectively pasting their logo all over nVidia's prize chameleon.nVidia has confirmed that their GT300 - codenamed "Fermi" - is under development and will support both DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.1. Whilst the software support remains far from the concern of folders, our graphics cards are nevertheless primarily designed for gaming in our never-ending quest for photo-realism.
On the memory side of things, nVidia are catching up with ATI with the GT300, and are proposing to eventually support GDDR5 memory. Recall that GDDR5 supports an error-correction mechanism (as opposed to GDDR3) which should help to greatly reduce the number of unexplained GPU client miscalculations.
The "Fermi" has been lined up for release in late 2009.
Source: Fudzilla
Translator: KaySL
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On: 09/29/09
