As we know, ATI will soon submit a chip for graphics cards supporting DirectX 11. This chip is known as the RV870 and Evergreen, and its performance, according to AMD, should be approximately 1.6 times more performance chip RV770.

Based on the RV770 GPU made Radeon HD 4870 and the results are very good, so that an increase in productivity from this level of 1.6 times would look much faster chips. Of course, an increase of 1.6 times is not achieved in all applications, and in some cases the increase will be less, but in general the 40 nm chip should be a good step forward for ATI.

For a company nVidia a big problem is that until the end of November, she will not be able to start producing his series of graphics chips GeForce GT300, which may ultimately prove to be even faster, but also likely to be larger and hotter.