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Pare proprio che il nuovo "mostro" di ATi, sarà venduto inizialmente senza le DirectX 9: fattore potenzialmente limitante per una GPU progettata appositamente per sfruttarle. Su The Inquirer possiamo leggere la notizia:

We mentioned in a previous article that DirectX 9 should be launched sometime around the beginning of October, so if ATI wants to deliver its cards in first two weeks of September, as is currently scheduled, it will need to ship cards with DirectX 8.1 or 8.1b and to ship it with a driver that will have support for DirectX 8.1 instructions but not for DirectX 9 as well. Of course, this is hardly a problem and it's certainly not an ATI issue. Microsoft will just not let ATI to ship its cards with a Microsoft beta API at this time.