According to Fudzilla who had first-hand experience of Evergreen, the DirectX 11 ATI Card is actually real and not just a Power Point presentation. They previewed the graphics card whilst it was running a few different DX11 technology demos.

The graphics card at the moment is a prototype which should be ready for launch later this year. Many techies are referring to the card as ‘Evergreen’, however, the card is in fact the RV870 and should be a performance card; not a cheap one like the name ‘Evergreen’ suggests.

All we know at the moment is that the card is rumoured to be able to do tessellation and a few more features from the DirectX 11 SDK kit. However, there are no benchmarks or 3DMark scores as of yet for this, ought to be, 40nm chip…

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