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Some news on this new beast of a GFX card, a 1st using MIMD technology. :cool:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/04/23/gt300-to-feature-mimd-architecture/1
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2904
http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-GT300-GPU-to-Boast-512-Processing-Cores-109993.shtml
GT300 and AMD RV870 here http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2227
http://www.techpowerup.com/93377/GT300_to_Boast_Around_256_GB_s_Memory_Bandwidth.ht ml
256gb/s Bandwidth !! lolz
Fermi, looks like a monster in the making, lets see ;)
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/30/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx
Some interesting benchmarks.
http://www.guru3d.com/news/geforce-gtx-360-and-380-benchmarks/
And a screenie of some specs :cool:
Holy... 200GB/s bandwidth.
What price range is this in?
Xaphan666
24-12-2009, 22:36
I think the 380 will be available from 300 EUR up to 600 / 700 EUR.
The most expensive one will be again the EVGA BlackPearl / Hydro Copper - extreme overclocked and watercooled - like the 8800 Ultra / GTX280 / GTX295 and so on...
For Example:
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=017-P3-1297-AR&family=GeForce%20200%20Series%20Family
- 719,99 $ USD
but EVGA FTW! :woohoo:
Delayed further:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20091228PD207.html
I'm gonna have to suspect issues with this new architecture, either with the drivers / compatability or the architecture itself.
Sneaky feeling early releases of this might be best to avoid, we'll have to see. When it does settle down, i'm certain these will be
the best DX 11 GFX cards to go for in 2010 (the 300's and 400's) Lets see ;)
The amount of games that use Dx11 is so small at the moment that it isn't important to have a Dx11 graphics card right now anyway. Dx10 cards like the GTX 285 are powerful enough to last for a while yet.
Yeah. It would not be about DX11 for this range tho, it would be about how powerful they promise to be.
OFERIKOLA
30-12-2009, 17:17
I`m thinking of buying a new compter in Jan-Feb 2010, and I`ve heard that DX11 also helps photo editing software like Photoshop CS4, to use the graphic processor power insted of the main cpu, to do all sort of complex graphics calculations. that the GPU does better and faster then the cpu. I`m working with photoshop all day.
Am I correct?
Xaphan666
31-12-2009, 12:10
Will you buy a complete computer or only the hardware and set it up by your own?
.....and will you watercool it? :woohoo:
Nvidia GF100 GPU will be Geforce GTX 480 and GTX 470 so this series has now been renamed (400 series)
Lets see this GTX480 :D
Some info here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Fermi-GF100-Chips-Named-GTX-480-and-GTX-470-133752.shtml
Nvidia partners should be able to showcase the upcoming Fermi-based Geforce GTX 480 graphics card at Cebit, but we doubt that this will be the time for the official card launch.
Nvidia's DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed Fermi, comes some six months after the first Radeon HD 5000-series card hit the market and in the past six months, ATI has managed to launch an entire DirectX 11 generation including the HD 57x0 series, the HD 56x0 series and most recently the HD 54x0 series.
Nvidia has delayed its Fermi generation for unknown reasons, and the company does not want to discuss it at this time. However, the company does plan to finally launch its long-anticipated, single-GPU, next-generation cards in March. Despite Nvidia’s promise to have healthy availability at launch, we are quite sure that the products will be in short supply from its launch.
:quote:
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17586/1/
Speedstar1776
18-02-2010, 11:36
We got some word that Nvidia's upcoming Fermi-based Geforce GTX 480 single GPU card should be as hot as the GTX 285. These are still preliminary results, as Nvidia still has to send out the final cards with the final coolers, but this looks like slightly better result that the GTX 480 that we saw at CES 2010.
The TDP of the GTX 480 will end up higher than on GTX 285, but with the help of a good cooler the thermals should be very close.
The noise lever should also be very comparable and the card should not end up much noisier than GTX 285. We heard numerous times that GTX 480 will end up with different cooler than the one we saw at CES 2010 and that was showed to Nvidia's loyal press at Editor Days.
All in all, you won't burn your fingers on the GTX 480, but it won't be cold either.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17723/34/
Speedstar1776
19-02-2010, 18:52
suprise suprise :D
maybee new tweets/news from the new grapic cards... sweet
NVIDIAGeForce: ARE YOU READY? Check back here on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. PST for a major announcement!
TEAMEVGA: RT @EVGA_JacobF RT @NVIDIAGeForce: ARE YOU READY? Check back here on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. PST for a major announcement!
GTX 480 is ready and is running hot i've heard but this will be king of cards just now...... finally
So we can guess that it will be DX11 cards ? Cause I need to buy a new one for when BC2 is released
Yes they are Nvidia's 1st DX11 cards. They do look very promising, this 1st range should at least match that at the top of ATI's current range, we will have to see :face:
I always perferr Nvidia before ATI
This card has been listed here priced : $699.99
http://www.sabrepc.com/p-174-xfx-geforce-gtx-480-2gb-gddr5-pci-express-x16-retail.aspx
To me this price is a very good indication of the performance of the card. Lets hope so :good2:
Speedstar1776
22-02-2010, 18:18
http://www.nvidia.com/object/paxeast.html
Speedstar1776
08-03-2010, 14:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpdPSZB8A8E&feature=player_embedded
I want a new GFX :cry:
I want one of these!
Speedstar1776
09-03-2010, 12:23
The most complex chip ever they claim
We asked quite a few Nvidia people why Fermi got delayed and each time we hit a wall. Nvidia's PR department didn't want to talk about what went wrong on the chip.
The only answer we ever got was that Fermi is the most complex chip that Nvidia ever made and that it takes huge amount of engineering to get such a complex chip out in the field. You need to read between the lines, a lot.
One can only imagine that some parts of the chip didn't work in A1 silicon, as it took Nvidia all the way to A3 to prepare it for launch. The launch should happen on the 26 in USA and 27th March in Europe, but we are not sure about the availability as we expect it to sell-out at the launch day.
We will try to dig out what went wrong, but obviously some part of chip didn’t work we only need to find out which one. The glitch was big enough to delay the launch for some six months.
This all remind us of ATI's R600 delay, when the card had problems with getting over 500MHz due to the faulty third party IP.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18008/34/
Some clarification needed here.
They will release 3 different GFX cards on the 27th? or has the GF100 been stopped?
Speedstar1776
16-03-2010, 11:29
its sadly in german, but i hope you can interpret the benchmark tests :blush:
http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14781&Itemid=101
I have seen some benchmarks and i would agree to some of the comments below on this page. This benchmark will likely be the 470
and if it is the 480 then it is only just matching the performance of the top ATI card atm. I'm guessing that the card is not as good as expected
and this is one of the reasons for the lack of publicity and hype towards the 480. Personally i think the 480 will be around the same power as the ATI top
card the 5970 with the usual performance variations between different games. I'd be disappointed if Nvidia does not release a card in the GTX480, which does not overwhelm the 5970. :neg:
Speedstar1776
16-03-2010, 14:21
max. power usage 300W :shock:
Speedstar1776
17-03-2010, 09:59
We managed to get some additional prices of upcoming Fermi-based cards and the slower of two will sell for €349 or £299 in the UK market.
The plan is to attack the Radeon HD 5870, which is currently selling at roughly the same or a very similar price, as Geforce GTX 470 should end up at least slightly faster in most benchmarks.
We would not be surprised to see ATI dropping Radeon HD 5870 price further down, but this is yet to happen. Bear in mind that ATI increased HD 5850 prices a few weeks following the launch, so it clearly has some room to tweak the prices.
Of course, these are Nvidia’s recommended prices and they include taxes, distributor, partner costs and the shop’s part of the financial cake. However, as we warned you yesterday, the shops might increase the price if they feel like that the product will see huge demand and if it sells great.
This is the price to hope for on launch day, March 27th in Europe and March 26th in the US, but only if Nvidia sticks to what it said in its announcement.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18087/1/
Speedstar1776
17-03-2010, 10:56
Fermi is certainly one heck of a headline stealer. Despite the fact that Nvidia has announced the launch date and the cards' names, there is still plenty of information to write about this particular card.
The recent development is that the card might launch on the 26th in the USA and 27th in Europe mainly due to the 9 hours time difference between California (Pacific time PT) and Central Europe time (CET). At this time, they should remain the launch date but of course it can be pushed.
Now for the fun part, the world-wide availability of Fermi based Geforce GTX 480 and 470 is most likely to happen on the April 6th, due to some logistical issues. The final cards are ready and benchmarkers are getting them as we speak, but it takes some time to manufacture the cards and fly them from China to Europe and US and get them in shops. This might be the cause of the availability delay from 27th of March to April 6th.
As this is all under heavy discussion and it tends to change daily, there will probably be some more changes before 26th.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18110/34/
Speedstar1776
18-03-2010, 14:49
Guys from Donanimhaber.com managed to get their hands on a slide which shows crude specs of the GF100 based GTX 480 card in what appears to be the final design. We can confirm that this is the same slide that we had a chance to see during CeBIT but that was when photographing was strictly forbidden and fingers were held on shutdown buttons.
The slide does show some specs that were quite well known even before CeBIT, but the interesting part is the picture next to the specification list which shows four heatpipes sticking out from the top of the card. Bear in mind that this slide was shown at CeBIT and that Nvidia might have changed some things as partners still didn't get a full batch of cards.
The card on the slide should have 1536MB of memory paired up with a 384-bit memory interface, 6 and 8-pin PCI-Express connectors, two dual-DVI and mini HDMI outputs.
In any case, more leaks should happen pretty soon as March 26th launch is drawing closer.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18138/34/
Speedstar1776
19-03-2010, 10:38
A few things have been cleared up. Fermi should be shown to the world on the 26th in the US and very early on the 27th in Europe. Mass availability is expected April 6th.
April 6th should be the day when you should be able to buy Fermi even in some smaller markets, that are not as big as UK, Germany, Spain or France and some smaller players such as Austria, Slovakia and similar countries might have Fermi on April 6th to sell as well.
The number of shaders is 480, something that our colleagues in the press reported a few days ago, but we managed to confirm it just recently.
The clock should be just slightly higher than 675MHz, somewhere in the 675MHz to 700MHz range, but we don’t know the exact number yet.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18143/34/
Speedstar1776
19-03-2010, 10:39
Nvidia Partners will get finished versions of Geforce GTX 480 cards from Nvidia, complete with the fancy new cooler, and they will should just slap a nice sticker somewhere on the card and sell it under their own brand.
They will get some more freedom with the cheaper of two, Geforce GTX 470 as partners will be allowed to make their own 470 cards. We are not sure if they will make it for the launch, but these cards will definitely come latest at some point after the launch.
We would not be surprised if we see some higher than specified clocks and tuned up specification on these cards.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18144/34/
Speedstar1776
19-03-2010, 10:40
Geforce GTX 480 and 470 got their prices, but again, these prices will vary from country to country. While in most of countries the pricing guideline is to sell GTX 480 for €450 in some countries it might sell for less than that, but in some it might go as high as €479.
The UK price is £429 at this also depends of the greed of retailers that will sell them, and Nvidia“s (read Fionas) power to sanction the ones who cross this price guide set by Nvidia.
The Geforce GTX 470 will sell for €349 in most of Euroland, but the same rules apply. Some “cheaper” countries will get it below this price and some more expensive countries e.g. Scandinavia will have to pay a bit more than this. The UK chaps can count with £299 suggested etail price. We are very sure that Danish at Greenland will have to pay much more than the suggested etail price but won't worry about the cooling and the high TDP.
The launch is still early morning, midnightish on the night between 26th and 27th of March, but mass availability is expected April 6th.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18145/34/
Speedstar1776
19-03-2010, 11:11
Nvidia Geforce GTX 480 and GTX 470 rumours have started to show up all around the Internet and we are quite sure that more info will be confirmed as we draw closer to the March 26th/27th launch date.
VR-Zone has posted full specification list including the clocks, shader numbers, memory interface as well as the rumoured price for both cards while Expreview managed to get detailed pictures of the XFX GTX 480 and 470 cards.
According to VR-Zone, Geforce GTX 480 has 480 stream processors and works at 700MHz for the core, 1401MHz for shaders and features 1536MB of memory that works at 1848MHz and paired up with a 384-bit memory interface. The Geforce GTX 470 has 448 stream processors and works at 607MHz for the core, 1215MHz for shaders and 1674MHz for 1280MB of memory paired up with a 320-bit memory interface.
VR-Zone has also posted some price details and according to their info, the GTX 480 should be priced at US $499 while the GTX 470 should have a suggested price tag set at US $349.
Expreview managed to score pictures of XFX's GTX 470 as well as the GTX 480 and these look like a final design, at least when compared to the picture from Nvidia's latest slides.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18147/34/
http://www.expreview.com/9888.html
Some new pics from here
http://www.expreview.com/img/news/2010/03/19/xfx_03.jpg
http://www.expreview.com/img/news/2010/03/19/xfx_05.jpg
http://www.expreview.com/img/news/2010/03/19/xfx_02.jpg
Speedstar1776
22-03-2010, 11:22
One thing is finally clear. The Geforce GTX 480 specification is locked at this time and Nvidia works hard to ship as many card for its planned launch on 26th US/ 27th Europe. We already told you that it might be all the way to April 6th before you are bale to buy the card but today we have the whole specification.
As we said earlier, the card has 480 cores with seven out of eight clusters enabled while the chip itself is designed with full 512 cores/shaders. The most important clock is the shader clock that today works at 1401MHz while the GPU clock is at round 700MHz. The graphics clock is a quite unusual 1848MHz and the card itself has a 384-bit memory interface and comes with 1536MB of memory.
Fermi's TDP stirred up quite a bit of speculation, but we finally have some exact numbers. The TDP is not close to 300W as many have suggested before, it's 250W. This is much higher than the 188W TDP of Radeon HD 5870, but as long as Fermi Gefroce GTX 480 runs stable, it should be satisfy its proud owners. The GTX 470 will obviously have a slightly lower TDP, probably slightly higher than HD 5870's TDP.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18170/34/
Speedstar1776
23-03-2010, 07:51
:woohoo:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radeon-5970-gtx-480-fermi-gf100,9952.html
Speedstar1776
23-03-2010, 10:40
Since the official launch of Fermi is on Friday US / late Friday night / Saturday morning in Europe, we are getting the last hidden details on the of slower of two Fermi cards.
Geforce GTX 470 has 448 cores, packs 1280MHz GDDR5 memory with a 320-bit memory interface clocked at 1674MHz has a TDP of 215W.
This is still much higher than Radeon HD 5870 TDP of 188W, or 170W TDP of Radeon HD 5850, but as long as it's faster, end users won't mind the TDP value. However, 215W is not a small value for slower of two cards and it will generate quite some heat, but with the help of Nvidia's new fan, temperature should be within the normal range.
Geforce GTX 470 shaders work at 1215MHz or twice as fast as 607MHz core clock and the performance of this card should be close to Radeon HD 5870 and definitely faster than HD 5850.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18183/34/
Leadtek's new range here : http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Leadtek-Preps-Custom-GTX-470-and-GTX-480-4.jpg/
http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Leadtek-Preps-Custom-GTX-470-and-GTX-480-5.jpg
Speedstar1776
25-03-2010, 10:53
It looks like Nvidia has pulled off yet another delay out of its sleeve, and this time we are talking about the availability date that has been pushed back from the original 6th of April to the week of April 12th.
We aren't sure if this delay is limited to certain markets, like Europe, or it will be a worldwide delay but we do know that it has nothing to do with the launch date of Fermi as this is the only Nvidia's estimate on when will partners be able to get the product on e-tail/retail shelves.
Nvidia recently changed the bios and the cooler and this might be some of the reasons behind the additional delay.
The date is week of April 12th as it also depends on how fast will partners be to ship the actual product to retail/e-tail as well, and some cards might show sooner. Of course, Nvidia's estimate is based on when it will ship a full batch to its Fermi cards to partners.
The launch date is pretty close and we'll have to wait and see if Nvidia will talk about mass availability schedule once it launches the card.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18208/34/
Speedstar1776
26-03-2010, 10:55
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::w oohoo::woohoo:
March 27th 00:01 CET, 23.01 BST March 26th
The world is full of time zones and the simultaneous launch of Fermi, Geforce GTX 480 and 470 will happen on March 26th, at 15.00 Pacific Standard Time (Pacific coast), 18.01 East Coast time, 23.01 British standard times and Central Europeans will see the first reviews on the March 27th at 00:01, or what we call midnight.
We can only speculate that Nvidia waited for the New York stock exchange to close before it launches the card, to let the stocks possibly rise or fall over the weekend.
The opinions will definitely be divided as tonight, it’s highly unlikely that you will be able to buy a card. There might be some cards here and there, but real availability can be expected on April 12th, only in case if Nvidia doesn’t shift this date again.
Performance wise, in some test and heavy AA and Anisotropic settings powered with super high resolutions, you will see somewhere between 20 to even 50 percent performance increase over Radeon 5870, but do have in mind that at this settings Fermi, Geforce GTX 480 loses to the dual-GPU Radeon 5970, which will remain the fastest card on market.
In most games Fermi should end up slightly faster than Radeon HD 5870. Be sure to return at midnight as we might have much more scores for you as we are testing the card as we speak. Stay tuned for more.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18237/34/
So when will I be able to get my hands on one of these?
Speedstar1776
29-03-2010, 10:16
EVGA GeForce GTX480 SC
As you could see from various reviews over the Internet, the GTX 480 packs quite a punch under its cooler with five heatpipes and as it supports voltage adjustments, it is no surprise that EVGA is working on the SuperClocked and even some other factory overclocked versions of the same card.
The Newegg.com has listed the EVGA SuperClocked Geforce GTX 480 card, and was even kind enough to post a full specification list including all the clocks. As you already know, the reference card works at 700MHz for the GPU, 1401MHz for Shaders or GPU CUDA cores as Nvidia calls them these day and 924MHz (3696MHz effective) for the 1536MB of GDDR5 memory.
As with all previous generations, EVGA is apparently going to do factory overclocked card, and according to Newegg.com listing, the SuperClocked version works, or to be precise, is overclocked to 725MHz for the GPU, 1450MHz for Shaders and 950MHz (3800MHz effective) for the same 1536MB of GDDR5 memory. EVGA didn't change the reference cooler as we guess that there is no point in it since Nvidia obviously have done a great job with it, despite the fact that it is noisy.
As you can see in our review, the reference card from Nvidia came with Samsung's memory rated to work at 1250MHz (5000MHz effective), but we still don't know which boards did partners get and if they use the same memory there is definitely still more room for overclocking.
You can find the EVGA SuperClocked card listed here with a US $529.99 price tag. Of course, the card is listed as "out of stock" so be patient till April 12th.
http://www.fudzilla.com/images/stories/2010/March/General%20News/evga_superclockedgtx480_1.jpg
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18250/34/
I am wondering if my computer is compatible with these GFX cards.
I have a Radeon HD 4800. Do you think one of these cards fit in to the same slot?
Xaphan666
29-03-2010, 18:22
Hydro Copper FTW cards
In addition to reference and SuperClocked versions, EVGA is the first partner that has showed its water cooled Fermi cards, and although Inno3D announced that it will do a similar card, EVGA cards are already listed. The EVGA Geforce GTX 480/470 Hydro Copper FTW feature a Swiftech made water block and both feature a single slot design.
The Hydro Copper GTX 470 and GTX 480 will both feature a rather high factory overclock, and of course a rather high price tag so the GTX 470 HC FTW will cost US $499.99, or precisely the same amount of cash which you would pay for a standard GTX 480.
The GTX 480 HC FTW works at 750MHz for the GPU, 1500MHz for Shaders and 3800MHz for 1536MB of memory. This is quite a high factory overclock considering that the reference card works at 700/1401/3696MHz. The GTX 470 HC FTW works at 650MHz for the GPU, 1300MHz for Shaders and 3402MHz for 1280MB of GDDR5 memory. The reference GTX 470 works at 607/1215/3348MHz.
The GTX 480 HC FTW will have a US $649.99 price tag while the GTX 470 HC FTW will have a US $499.99 price tag. Although, bear in mind that water blocks can easily reach prices of over US $100 so the price seems like a reasonable one.
Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18264/34/
http://www.abload.de/img/ftw4o8k.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=ftw4o8k.jpg)
F ~ T ~ W ---> I hope they will release it as fast as possible!!!!
Does anyone know a release date?
Speedstar1776
30-03-2010, 10:41
XFX confirmed that they wont sell Fermi cards
Speedstar1776
31-03-2010, 10:19
Nvidia's second batch of soon-to-be-available Fermi cards is expected in the first days of May. This is what the company told to few of its launch partners.
As we said before, Fermi should (we are not allowed to use "will" for Nvidia's announcement ed.) start selling in the week of April 12th and few people have told us that Nvidia plans to ship more finished Geforce GTX 480 cards in the first week of May. Furthermore, some lucky ones will get chips to design their own GTX 470 cards and strap them with some custom designed coolers.
Overclocking is possible and we might see overclocked cards at the launch or in May at the latest, but we doubt that Nvidia will have enough Geforce GTX 480 and 470 cards even then.
ATI can only be happy about it, as they should have enough supplies of the more attractively priced Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 cards, and let's not forget the Radeon HD 5970 X2 cards.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18296/34/
OK this kinda sums it up for me lolz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZXhR1ibj8&feature=player_embedded
Same fore me, sorta dissapointed of the benchs ive read
Prices are in from sweden and as suspected the 480 goes for 4900-5000 SEK
and 470 at 3500-3600 SEK
Hoping we'll see ati dropping their prices
what prices are the ATI 5xxx at?
You'll be lucky to get a 5970 for less than £500, here in UK atm here's one site (£531 lowest price): http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1577&sortby=priceAsc
The GTX480 lowest price is £446, same site: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1750&sortby=priceAsc
I'm gonna have to wait for a price drop. :neg:
Speedstar1776
06-04-2010, 10:55
You'll be lucky to get a 5970 for less than £500, here in UK atm here's one site (£531 lowest price): http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1577&sortby=priceAsc
The GTX480 lowest price is £446, same site: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=56&subid=1750&sortby=priceAsc
I'm gonna have to wait for a price drop. :neg:
me too, i need a new PSU too, hmmm... that will be expensive
lol that Hitler video is funny :P
me too, i need a new PSU too, hmmm... that will be expensive
If the GTX480 should be available, I'll get one and give you an update! :p I'm waiting for this architecture since I did the last HW upgrade. :( (my CPU is bored ^^)
Speedstar1776
08-04-2010, 13:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbT1aWjM64
Xaphan666
09-04-2010, 00:36
We managed to score a couple of Fermi pictures, and these were taken at partners warehouse in Europe, so the cards should hopefully be in retail/e-tail as of tomorrow.
According to our sources , European partners have finally got their hands on some GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards and should ship them to shops as soon as possible. Some might find their way to shop shelves as of tomorrow and some might be available as of next week, the 12th of April.
Of course, many of these cards have already sold and a lot of them will certainly be shipped to consumers that were brave enough to pre-ordered them. Those who miss this first batch of cards will probably have to wait untill May to get their hands on one.
At least the cards are finally here, on pictures below.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18391/1/
Xaphan666
13-04-2010, 21:07
Small numbers hit stores
Yesterday in the morning we reported that Fermi, Geforce GTX 480 and 470 cards were not available at all, and later in the day we got some evidence that a few cards did get to e-tail stores and that most of them sold very quickly.
We talked to a few partners and we learned that most of them got four times less than they pre-sold to distributors and retailers. Since most shops allowed pre-orders for these cards, whatever comes in, has already been sold.
The second batch comes in May, but we are not sure that it will be enough to solve the shortage issue. By the time third batch arrives, ATI might have its 6000 ready or it will be close.
Luckily Nvidia should have its GF104 mainstream card by summer time.
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18435/34/
Speedstar1776
05-05-2010, 13:16
did anybody bought one yet?