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New ATI cards out in less than month?

ray liotta said:
Noob question. But would a DX11 card improve a game like ArmA 2 much?
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One of the benefints of new cards is the effect them have on the previouse generation of games, i.e the cards are MUCH more powerful than the old ones meaning they kick the arse of older games.

In this case the new DX11 cards will walk all over DX10 games so yes, you should see a boost in Arma 2 (assuming your CPU can handle that as it is rather CPU dependant).
 
Well most of us are mostly interested in the muscle behind the new ATI videocards. DX11 while a nice feature will take some time to be implemented by developers.
 
Shocking this is coming so soon and there was me thinking of buying another 4780 for xfire.....scrap that idea now!
On a side note, with all this talk about ArmA 2 being CPU dependent, will this be the new Crysis for benchmarking?
 
ray liotta said:
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Im excited;)
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sweet. I would pay anything for that beard.
 
well i think it will be true as everyone started to drop there prices instantly a few weeks ago and i think thats when they knew about this
some cards have nearly dropped by half price they dont do this for love :D

im thinking august september very very latest
 
theforce said:
Well most of us are mostly interested in the muscle behind the new ATI videocards. DX11 while a nice feature will take some time to be implemented by developers.
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it won't take any time at all to be used by dev's, most of the features have been being used in developement of games for 2 years, because the original dx10 spec most of those games developers were coding for, for up to 4 years, were ripped out of the final dx10 spec, most of that spec is in dx11 now, which means many of the games out in the past 2 years actually have largely dx11 code. Assasins creed is a pretty good standard to work from, it was out what, well over a year ago, it had dx10.1 in it which was removed in a patch at Nvidia's request. those dx10.1 improvements made ati cards 20% faster in the game. Most games were developed along the same lines as Assasins creed, with dx10.1 in mind most of the way through developement.

But that also means Assasins creed's entire team knows exactly how to use dx10.1, and know how to get a 20% boost in performance from dx10.1 over dx10. The spec change from dx10 to dx10.1 is honestly bigger than the change from dx10.1 to dx11.

IN other words, almost everyone thats made a dx10 game, for 2-3 years before hand were coding originally for dx10.1(which is probably hidden in most dx10 games like Assasins creed), which means they are completely ready and waiting to go for dx11.
 
I am so glad i have seen this post i was about to order EVGA GeForce GTX 275 SSC 896MB GDDR3 £275.99 inc VAT so i think i will save that and see what hits the store or if prices drop like a brick on the old ones
 
LOL

i just ordered 2x battle forge edition 4890s :P

who cares about DX11, games probably wont run that well anyway on it not for the first revision that is

remember the dx10 feasco and uber slow speeds compaired to dx9 when they first came out.

also you have to remember dx10.1 cards can do nearly all dx11 features its just no games out there to use the tech yet but i bet ya when a dx11 full game comes out that those people with dx10.1 will get extra features compaired to the nvidia dx10 cards.
 
As has been pointed out dx11 is what dx10 would have been bar some intervention by one company and should run fine on cards specifically made for it. But for me it is the extra performance i can look forward too in older games that might have struggled with some cards of the last revision but should play a lot more better with these. I suppose as usual crysis will be trotted out to test them and if they manage to get that playing nice and smooth these cards will be a success. How cheap they are and stay will depend on nvidia and how quickly they can recover and put out some competition hopefully they can do it sooner rather then later.
 
Thing is whenever you buy new technology there's always something new and better on the horizon. What it's about is 'upgrading when you need to, not when you want to' - I believe this is the finest comment to come out of Bill Gates' mouth :D
 
I hope they are released :( I brought everything for my new PC bar the graphics card! I do not want to crumble, must stay strong... Must wait for new card...
 
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