No wonder i never liked nvidia not only are they pumping enormous power hungry money hungry that will sure leave your pockets flat empty but also denying dx 10.1??. Directx 10 10.1 and soon coming directx 11 will be suported in windows vista and up coming windows 7.

They better hope they don't regret this. If you going to pay this much for a card like this i would expect to have dx 10.1 in there.

Its their loss. Glad i stayed with ATI cards.

the report says Nvidia won't adopt DirectX 10.1 like AMD has.

so the Nvidia response is to continue to stifle progress that they didn't initially orchestrate....... the delightful "Nvidia the way it's meant to be played" program will continue in high gear to keep developers from supporting DX 10.1 features while removing any that are released as was the case with Assassins Creed.

lovely little company, F'ing bastards.

p.s. I just bought an Evga 280 ssc 1024mb after having sold my 4850 and 4870's.

I enjoyed both cards and had no problems with them aside from FarCry but wanted a little more performance without having to go to the 4870 X2..... and after the discounts and free shipping for the entire order the 280 fit , so please no silly talk about fanboyism Nvidia is being deliberate bastards about DX10.1 until they can move something else in it's place.

ehh this seems like half a step backwards if you ask me

I know a 512 bit bus is expensive from a PCB standpoint but if they're upping the shaders to 384 and the bandwidth will remain pretty much the same (or slightly less, if they're using the same speed GDDR5 as on the 4870) then wont this lead to a pretty big memory bottleneck?

hopefully the GT300 isnt delayed because i'm feelin' the itch to replace this 8800 gts 512 already. damn.

Windows 7 will ship using DX10.1 on june therefore nvidia cannot use much of the performance offered by Windows 7. DX11 will come on 3rd or 4th quarter this year

I'm torn. I'm sitting on my 8800GT and it's feeling a bit old. I want to upgrade, but going ATI leaves me no high-end single GPU options (Linux + SLI or CF = SUX), and Nvidia is a bad buy right now with new cards right around the corner.

Might have to gamble with eVGA's Step-Up again.

I think I may be most interested in how this affects power draw. With cards like 4870 suckin' in 80W drawing an XP desktop, this is quickly becoming one of the most interesting aspects of big GPUs IMO. GTX 280 is downright frugal compared to 4870 when idling.

Ma'b with DX11 around the corner, there may be too many similarities that would benefit Nvidia to just skip to DX11 and never formally do 10.1

Why is it still surprising that Nvidia won't adopt DX10.1 when they've said repeatedly that they won't be?

Edit: clone kinda sorta beat me to it :P