ATI sells 2 million DirectX 11 GPUs

Since the debut of DirectX 11 graphics cards in late 2009 ATI have sold a total of 2 million GPUs to consumers despite heavy shortages.

Posted on Jan 9, 2010 - 8:44am EST

Even though the first DirectX 11 card from ATI appeared on October 12th last year they have already surpassed 2 million graphics card sales. ATI / AMD has celebrated with a Radeon cake which looks very tasty.

The HD5770 appeared October 12 and HD 5970 launched November 18 and since then there have been problems with graphics card shortages globally. Limited by the TSMC production shortages the Radeons will start becoming widely available throughout the start of 2010. Even today there are still quite a number of preorders and backorders for popular models 5970 and 5850.

It's a pretty impressive head start on rivals nVidia who have been struggling with their latest generation cards planning to release some DirectX 11 products early in 2010. More DirectX 11 cards will be launched in 2010 from ATI for both mainstream and entry level markets.

Currently DiRT 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and Battleforge support DirectX 11 with Call of pripyat yet to be released in many parts of the world. although there is a benchmark available for it.

Future confirmed DirectX 11 titles include:

Alien vs. Predator

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Crysis 2

Dungeons and Dragons Online

F1 2010

Genghis Khan – Treasure Hunter

The Lord of the Rings Online

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Source: DailyTech