AMD launches new budget priced DirectX11 graphics chips

Posted Oct 13th 2009 6:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Hardware

We are just days away from the launch of Windows 7 and the official launch of DirectX11. But maybe you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars to get one of those new AMD graphics cards that support DirectX11 features. Fear not, however, as AMD has just announced two new cards that are designed for the more budget minded PC gamer who still wants to have high end graphics.

The ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card (shown to the left) and the ATI Radeon HD 5750 card both support DirectX11 and early reviews from hardware sites indicate that both cards give a lot of performance bang for the buck. In this case the bucks come to between $109-$159. Meanwhile Nvidia still has yet to release their own DirectX11 card and likely won't be able to until sometime in 2010.

Tags: amd, ati, ati-radeon, ati-radeon-hd-5750, ati-radeon-hd-5770, directx11

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Long story short: ATI continues to release a new product line with great performance to value ratios, great low power usages, future-forward DX11 support and new features like EyeInfinity support

Nvidia's response "Uhh, we feel DirectX 11 won't drive the future sales of video cards. Uhh, there's on dx 11 games out(untrue) and none coming. No need to buy a card now. Wait six months for our card. Uhh, please."Posted at 6:57PM on Oct 13th 2009 by Wes

Maybe Nvidia realised it might be a good idea to see how DX11 goes first. If i remember correctly Nvidia were the first manufacturer to put a DX10 card out with ATI lagging behind before releasing there card. And its been clear that DX10 was not something utilised very well.Posted at 6:59AM on Oct 14th 2009 by ToonarmY

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