Microsoft will launch the market's first DirectX 11 compatible operating on October 22, and release a DX11 update for Windows Vista. Since AMD showed the first functioning DirectX 11 graphics circuits at Computex at the start of the month we have had a certain feeling that AMD is aiming to synchronize its DX11 launch with Microsoft's new operating system. Second tier sources confirms that that the first DX11 chip, RV870, will be ready for when Windows 7 launches.
It's far from impossible that AMD will speed up the launch of the card and other claim that AMD will supply game developers with DirectX 11 hardware for optimizing its games for AMD hardware.
AMD's Rick Bergman recently claimed that DX11 will be one of the most awesome happenings on the graphics card market in many years and even if Bergman is hardly impartial it certainly looks promising for us consumers.
RV870 will be vastly faster to market than NVIDIA's next generation graphics circuits if everything goes as planned. Why that is most likely because AMD has stuck to its plan of bringing the best performance per buck hardware to market, and not the most extreme, while NVIDIA is going for the raw power title again with GT300.
Alas, things are not going that well for NVIDIA. BSN reports yields in the 20-30% range for GT300, which matches what we've been hearing. This is the chip that keeps the rumors of leakage problems at TSMC alive.
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RV870 ready for launch when Windows 7 is
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