One of the most anticipated products due to be released by the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices is the company's first DirectX 11 graphics card, which is supposed to become available sometime in the fourth quarter of this year. Unfortunately, despite a couple of details that have been made available by AMD, we don't have a lot to go on when it comes to said card. However, it now appears that the very first photos of the upcoming solution have made their way on the Internet, which could mean that the graphics chip maker is preparing the launch of its new product in the near future.

According to a recent news-article that has surfaced on the Chinese-language chiphell, pictures of AMD's allegedly first DirectX 11 graphics card have just hit the Internet. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all we have at this time, as the technical details on the card's graphics core and other features are yet to be unveiled. Still, taking a good look at the photos, we can draw some info on its specs.

From what we can tell, we might be looking at a follow-up to the chip maker's 40nm Radeon HD 4770, which AMD introduced earlier this year. The card seems to have been equipped with a dual-slot cooling solution, similar to that on the aforementioned HD 4770, and an impressive range of connectivity options. It comes with dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs and could ship with 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM, judging by the arrangement of its memory chips. In addition, there's a 6-pin PCIe plug designed to deliver the necessary power to run the card at its full potential.

If this is indeed AMD's first DirectX 11-ready product, we should be expecting a release sometime after the launch of Microsoft's much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system. Until that time, we should hear more on the card's specs.