Sirius87 on 22 May 2012
The rumor is obviously fake, but not because of the DX11 part.
Developers like to speak of DirectX 11 if the GPU can offer DX11 like features. OpenGL and other APIs today just copy the features of DX11 for the most part. So if a card has DX11, the corresponding methods of other APIs also work on them. And that's what matters to developers.
PS3 and XBox360 are also sometimes called DX9-consoles, while that's not true for the PS3 at all (and also not a 100% true for the XBox360).
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