Rumor: Nvidia to Refresh GT200 with DirectX 10.1 Support
Posted 06/26/09 at 04:15:25 PM by Paul Lilly
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At long last, Nvidia may finally adding DirectX 10.1 support to its videocards, assuming Fudzilla is right on the money. According to the news and rumor site, Nvidia's GT200 will be refreshed to a 40nm manufacturing process and the new chips will sport DX10.1.
To date, ATI has been the only one to offer DX10.1 support on some of its videocards (yes, we're completely ignoring S3's Chrome series), a minor extension to DX10 that thus far hasn't meant much for gamers. To to fuel the conspiracy flames, that could change with Nvidia jumping on board. Remember that DX10.1 instructions did at one point show a performance boost on ATI cards in Assassin's Creed, but after a patch removed support for the instruction set, some accused Ubisoft of bowing to pressure from Nvidia after the GPU maker sponsored the title with its The Way It's Meant To Be Played program.
In any event, it looks like refresh will come on the tail end of summer or early fall.
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Kudos to the geniuses at nVidia
Submitted by gruvsf on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 1:15pm
I guess "They Way it's supposed to be played" means "They way that nVidia wants you to play", when they ask their partners to disable support for competitors' hardware. Plus, did nVidia say since AMD supported DX 10.1 that 10.1 doesn't matter? Oh, how we have come full circle. Now AMD will soon be releasing the first DX 11-compatible card while nVidia is going to release 10.1 cards. Brilliant.
Pinch pennies
Submitted by MeTo on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 3:58pm
It cost money to shrink dies,support DX 10.1. They were to busy taking 8xxx series chips and marking them 9xxx series when they need to shirnk dies and lower voltage. Give up on the double decker video cards and go with low profile cards.
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Submitted by mikeart03a on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 1:07am
Now nVidia decides to jump on the bandwagon, 3 years later...
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Go ATI....RAH RAH RAH...!!
Submitted by gatorXXX on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 6:00pm
Go ATI....RAH RAH RAH...!!
All aboard the fail boat!
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 2:46pm
All aboard the fail boat!
Submitted by Drakaun on Sat, 06/27/2009 - 5:44am
Its there way of saying.....hey you need to buy new cards so you can have DX 10.1!!! Instead of already having it on the current gen of cards.But they wouldnt make enough money that way !!!!! LMAO
Im so sick of just feelin UBer with new hardware and few months later Im old tech lol.Tech ya gotta love it.Runs faster than my wallet does.
Yeah DX 10.1 is useless right now.DX 10 is just now in more games than before and its old???? BLAH!!
Hmmm...if you buy a new card JUST for DX 10.1.....I wonder will it run DX11 in WIn7 when its out on shelfs? or do ya gotta buy another card......lol,thats funny.
They do this on purpose,cause they know the hardware will last a long time,if they dont refresh products with something new.Then no one will buy more hardware. SO high tech hardware for PC's is a consumable market!!
Its like I have a core 2 duo 8400,it works great.But I wish I had a core i7 in right now,even tho on REAL benchmarks you gain average of 3-5 fps.Synthetic benchmarks of course show alot of difference between the 2 processors.But I cant justify buy a processor ram and mobo just to switch to a new i7,with small gain.I will say if I was building a new tower then yeah I would have one,i will when I build the next build then the corei999999 will be out lol.STILL i want the new tech!!! cause Im a GEEK and I like the TECHNOLOGY!!!.Just impossible to stay on top.My 2 GTX 280's are almost ancient already too...BLAH :-p
What is physicly different
Submitted by vistageek on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 2:16pm
What is physicly different about a DX10.1 card? What I am wondering is why can't they enable DX 10.1 for the gen DX 10 cards?
I dont get it...
Submitted by Devo85x on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 2:07pm
There are two reasons that this is retarted... 1) as stated in a previous comment, DX11 is about to come out, why now with DX10.1? and 2) did anyone ever really care about DX10.1? almost nothing ever used it, (the only thing I can think of is Assassins Creed, and they put out a patch that disabled it!)
And with DX11 around the
Submitted by Caboose on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 2:05pm
And with DX11 around the corner, does nVidia finally adopt DX10.1... good thinking there boys!
Adopting DX10.1 late in the game, refusing to use GDDR5, or going to a smaller fab. process on their GPU's... Ya, great forward thinking there Team nVidia. I'll just stick with ATI thankyouverymuch!
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