A ATI demonstra as placas gráficas “The Future” DirectX 11 na Quakecon
“AMD has been working hard to support DirectX 11, so there are plans to make native DirectX 11 hardware from AMD in its ATI Radeon GPUs available when Windows 7 is released”.
AMD definido para lançar a placa gráfica DirectX 11
The release of AMD's first DirectX 11 graphics card would coincide with the launch of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7, [AMD spokesman John Taylor]. The DirectX 11 graphics card will belong to the ATI Radeon line
The graphics card maker has been demonstrating an ATI Radeon graphics card with DirectX 11 support since June, but has not made a specific product announcement yet.
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 has built-in support for new DirectX 11 tools, but there is no hardware available yet that supports those tools. With the new card, AMD will beat rival Nvidia to market. Nvidia has also said it would support DirectX 11, but has not yet made a product announcement. Intel, which mostly offers integrated graphics on chipsets, in June released updated graphics drivers for Windows 7, but offered support for only DirectX 10.
Atualização: discussão ativa do Slashdot O AMD pré-visualiza o desempenho dos jogos DirectX 11
Update2: ATI Radeon HD 5870 & HD 5850 está prestes a chegar ao mercado em breve.
Aqui está uma tabela de referência da série DirectX 11 Radeon e seus marcadores de rua (datas de lançamento) em comparação com a nVidia GTX 285 (a postagem está em Alemão, mas a tabela é legível).
Aqui está outra postagem em inglês ...