ATI is demonstrating its first DirectX 11 beta hardware and it has decided to call its whole DirectX 11 generation Evergreen. The first card is up and running and it was demonstrated last week at Computex in Taiwan, doing tessellation, something really interesting that was already apart of DirectX 10.1 but no one has really used it before.

At this point Nvidia has nothing new to show, at least not until later this year. If all goes well, Nvidia might have its GT300 DirectX 11 capable card in very late 2009 but it’s almost certain that ATI will be the first to launch DirectX 11 hardware. GT300 might also launch in early 2010 as many other sources reported and we believe that even most of Nvidia doesn’t really know when this card might be launched.

Nvidia is limping big time in terms of new technology adoption but in the end, Nvidia hardware ends up faster than ATI’s and Nvidia wins a lot of sales. Let me just remind you, ATI was first to 55nm, 40nm, DirectX 10.1 support and many other things and it looks like that they will be first with DirectX 11 as well. Despite that, Nvidia is selling more and has a much bigger market share as in the end, they do things right.