While AMD launched its next-gen graphics card with DirectX 11 support, the Radeon 5870 a week ago, Nvidia has revealed details of its graphics chip. The new GT300 will have over twice as many cores as the previous GT200 generation, and will be packing a whopping 512 cores into one chip. Coupled with up to 6GB GDDR5 memory (4GB for graphics cards, 6GB for HPC cards) and will be the first graphics card to include support for C++ code execution, and the first chip to include L1 and L2 cache.

All this contributes to the chip holding the largest amount of transistors of any chip: 3 billion. Unfortunately, the new graphics cards won’t be released until early next year, which gives AMD almost a six month advantage on the DX11 scene.