Now that AMD's latest Radeon cards have come to be among the company's most successful products, and given that the HD 4870 X2 is expected to drop soon, on-going rumors have picked up on yet another interesting move on behalf of the company. Apparently, AMD is currently working on DirectX 11-support for its upcoming cards. Nevertheless, for the time being, details about the new product are scarce.

As some of you already know, Microsoft is expected to jump over the DirectX 10.1 API, and to release the DirectX 11 instead. This has put quite some pressure on graphics manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD, as they need to prepare their hardware for the upcoming graphics interface. Also, AMD's DirectX 10.1-support seems rather ridiculous, as no such API will be released.

NVIDIA has decided to play it cool with the API support and didn't go for DirectX 10.1, although its upcoming GeForce cards are expected to feature DirectX 11-support even before the official release of the API. According to recent rumors, AMD is also working on support for DirectX 11, because it plans on continuing to offer users high-performance cards designed to cope with the latest in PC Gaming. Unfortunately, no details regarding the technical specifications of the upcoming Radeons are available, as neither are there for the date they will become available on the market.

All ongoing rumors are based on the fact that Microsoft is set to finally roll out its next-generation graphics API, although so far neither NVIDIA nor AMD has indicated that it is working on DirectX 11 support.

All this aside, before AMD is ready to launch the next best thing in the graphics department, the fans are still waiting for that dual-GPU 55nm-based graphics monster, which is said to be better than anything that NVIDIA has to offer at this point. We're talking, of course, about the highly anticipated HD 4870X2 graphics card, hailed to position AMD as the leading graphics card manufacturer and to take NVIDIA's crown in the process.