DX 9 DX 10 Confussion

[codename_romeo]

Can anyone tell me will today's DX 9 graphics cards support(or atleast work with) DX 10 , which will launched sooon ?
And will it give any kinda probs.....
I want some details on this topic please help....

Thanks in advance

[drvarunmehta]

No graphics card today has support for DX10.
But all new games will come with backward support for DX9 so your DX9 graphics card won't have any problem running the latest games, although they won't look the same as that with true DX10 graphics cards.

[suhas_sm]

Are they in market yet ? Wat would be its costing like ? I am happy to go with a 7600 GT as of now.

[tarey_g]

nVIDIA will be unveiling its dx10 card next month. Its going to be costly.

[drvarunmehta]

Not to mention you'll probably have to upgrade your PSU.
I'm quite sure the minimum requirement to run DX10 GPU's will be a 550W and above PSU.

[suhas_sm]

Hmm ASUS p5w DH dlx can support it ? BTW does ASUS p5w DH dlx has a onbard display card ?

[akshayt]

As of now all new games will work on both Dx 9 and Dx 10. If thing go well we won't be seeing games which only support Directx 10 before 1-1.5yrs.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by suhas_sm

Hmm ASUS p5w DH dlx can support it ? BTW does ASUS p5w DH dlx has a onbard display card ?

Dude any board with a native PCI-E slot(X16) can support a DirectX10 card.The Asus P5W DH Delux dosen't have an onboard video display.It's one of those premium versions of 975 chipset which would rather have a dedicated video card than having a crappy onboard.

As for the original question,The current DX9 cards would be compatible with the DX10 games but would be downported on the graphics front.Some of the major DX10 features would be missing and it won't look the same as on a DX10 card.FYI the Crysis demo till now has been run on a X1900XTX cards in crossfire which is a DX9 card.Think about it,if the game looks so jaw-dropping in DX9 version then how would it sum up for the DX10 front.

Nvidia's G80 chipset of DX10 cards is said to be debuting in Mid-November.The 8800GTX would be requiring a minimum of 450Watts of PSU and 8800GT would need atleast 400Watts.
For detailed info check this site out:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4441

No news on ATI Front so far.

[akshayt]

Crysis will not be looking much better on Dx 10 but it is will much faster with Dx 10 this is what the developers said I think. And future games should indeed look much better on Dx 10.