Nvidia to launch DirectX 11 in 2009?

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Nvidia has annouced that they will be the first one to launch DirectX11. This will be one shocking news for all the hardcore gamers! Both Nvidia and ATI promised that DirectX will launch in Q4 2009. However, their competitive ATI may launch the DirectX11 few months before Nvidia. We will see who will win the race. With the attached youtube video, we will see how powerful DirectX11 is

People nowadays may not know how important Directx is. Directx is a collections of application programming interface (API). This set of development libraries for high performance games allows software developers direct access to the low-level functions of PC peripherals. Also, it consists two APIs, DirectDraw and Direct3D.

• DirectDraw - DirectDraw allows access to the bits on the video card and helps drawing raster graphics. DirectDraw comes with the ability to store surfaces directly on the video card thus providing some amazingly fast blits.
• Direct3D (D3D) - Direct3D allows drawing 3D graphics primitives. D3D has two main modes - Retained Mode and Immediate Mode. Retained Mode is a low level API in which the application retains the graphics data. Immediate Mode is also a low level API, but it helps the application to explicitly streams the data out to an execute buffer.

Directx is a important API that gamers can not live without, with the advanced tecnology nowadays, Directx can develop much better and faster than ever.

Source:

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14350/1/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAsoXHHCqWM

http://www.tech-faq.com/directx.shtml