A year has passed since the world saw the first DirectX 11 cards. AMD's first DX11 card, the HD5870 (codenamed Cypress), was introduced on September 2009. The card held the top spot for almost six months, until Nvidia released the GTX 480. Like CPUs, graphics cards often go through a cycle that mimics Moore's Law. Every 12 to 18 months, it is expected that a new generation of cards will arrive on the market. Every three to five years, we expect to see a major architecture update. So it's no surprise that a year after the first DirectX 11 card came out, AMD is releasing the next generation of graphics cards.



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