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Seems kinda premature at this time. DX11 isnt even gone final yet. So to say they are going to release DX11 GPU's next year before it is even final yet is just kinda bad.
What if Microsoft hits a delay with it? It is already apparent that Windows 7 wont hit in 09 which will be DX11 based as well. I really hope that M$ stays on track so that ATi/AMD dont be made to look the fool.
From what I hear, DirectX 11 will be largely compatible with DirectX 10 hardware, with some features added to it.
For example, a hardware tesselation unit (which ATI has been putting in their GPU's since R600)
DX 11 should be better optimised than DX 10. Or at least shouldn't be worse.worst case scenerio is ati releases dx11 cards with sm 5.0 and dx11 capable shaders, and it wont be fast enoguh to actually run dx11, but yet still be compatible. to me sounds lie ka gimmick, just like dx10.1, which has yet to be implemented into any game i know of.