Oh for snail's sake, people! Mark has always said Max3D will be next gen... where's the surprise in this?!? Hell, the early tech demo only worked on GeForce 5600+ or something... this is only one small step up. And I also havn't seen Mark say -anywhere- about SM3... only Flamey... last I checked my 6600 doesn't do SM3 anyway and that's part of Mark's listed requirements... so go figure.
QFT.
the great thing about HLSL is the ability to have multiple versions of the same shader,
QFT.