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.

Source: expreview.com