Games always stimulated the sales of new video card, since the appetites of developers grow by much higher rates than the computational resources of video chip. In the case with the release of the new directX 11 version stimulus for the purchase of new video card are already new visual effects. AMD is assembled first to present products with DirectX 11 support, the company is intended also to support game developers to the end of the first quarter following year will appear five games, which will demonstrate the advantages Of directX 11. Moreover, three of them will appear in this year.
NVIDIA Company, does not attempt to make support for the advantages Of directX 11 . In the opinion of NVIDIA representatives, the gaming potential of video card is not the main factor, which impels buyer to acquire a new video card. The possibilities of video chip on calculations acceleration and physical effects must be examined also by buyer as one of the key characteristics for new product.
It is worthwhile to note that NVIDIA actively develops the direction GPGPU due to the advance of its platform CUDA among the developers of software, but branch as a whole attempts to create a certain universal platform directCompute 11 or OpenCL. The additional possibilities of NVIDIA video card like the support Of physX and 3d image are considered as advantages, capable of justifying the higher price (or lower speed in games ). Some associate is assured in the superiority of GT300 over Radeon HD 5870 from the speed side.