Six months have passed since the first DirectX 11 accelerator seeing the light of day. ATI’s Radeon HD 5870 was presented on 23rd September 2009. After its appearance and the graduate fading of the media appraisal of the new standards and models, all eyes turned to Nvidia, impatiently waiting for a competitor. Unfortunately, as time went by with no response, Nvidia started to gather attention by some rather strange ways. First of all, an overblown secrecy surrounding the development of the new GPU which was supposedly on its way, supported by a “fishy” model of a supposed Fermi card by Nvidia’s CEO Jen-Hsun himself. A premature leak of “white paper” material followed, which is a rather awkward move in itself, although Nvidia isn’t exactly new to the concept of “paper launch"…



Link: InsideHW