Just as Nvidia is working on its DirectX 11 part and hopes to bring it to market in late 2009, ATI is doing the same. We are quite sure that ATI’s part is 40nm and we are talking about one big chip, packed with a lot of performance.

ATI's R800 dual-DPU card should again be equipped with two RV8x0 chips, while the RV8x0 card should be the performance DirectX 11 solution.

There is a big chance that both Nvidia and ATI might skip the 40nm DirectX 10.x part that would replace RV790 / GT200 architecture and that they will both simply move to DirectX 11 part and welcome Windows 7.

If we were gamblers, we would put our money on a Q4 2009 release date for both chips.