Tech-Elec Fan

We have been hearing about DirectX 10 hardware and the miraculous advantages it has over DX9. We have even seen the screenshots of games in development. However, until today, the hardware has been lacking. However Nvidia has finally delivered the hardware goods first over ATI. The first official hunk DirectX 10 compliant hardware is the Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX and 8800GTS.

The new DX10 hardware has unified architecture which churns out more shader units as they can be utilized more efficiently than a fixed function layout. Ushering in the new era of computer graphics is the GeForce 8800GTX with 128 unified shader units and the GeForce 8800GTS with 96 shader units. These two bad boy pieces of hardware will run about $460 for the 8800GTS and about $670 for the 8800GTX.

The days of pipelines will soon be history.