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Garcian Smith said:
WilliamWatts said:
 
DirectX 11 stuff

At the present time, I wouldn't worry about DX11. There's no games on the horizon that require it, and only three out right now that even use it. Save the DX11 concerns for two years from now when you upgrade your graphics card.

No game will require it for a long time but they will soon drop DX9 support and focus on the DX10+ codepath. Pretty much every feature in DX11 can be emulated by DX10 hardware aside from tessellation. However emulated support for more advanced shaders etc will be slower than native support. So by the end of this year there should be a clear lead for the 5750 against the 4850 and the 5770 against the 4870. In addition to this the other abilities of the GPU are more useful, like for example accelerating encoding or GPGPU type tasks with Shader Model 5.