GT300 to launch in Q4 2009

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14810/1/
if you are too lazy to click on the link:

Quote:

---

Once more we have confirmed that the chip that we call GT300 is on schedule to launch in 2009. The way it looks now the chip should be launching roughly in November timeframe and of course it will be a high end product.

Nvidia has put in a lot of effort in order to beat ATI and keep the performance leadership, as this is something it cannot afford to lose. The real volume shipment of Nvidia’s new DirectX 11, 40nm high end part should be expected in early Q1 2010 but since $599+ products are not selling in millions of units, Nvidia should be able to ship sufficient cards to consumers.

Even if something goes wrong, Nvidia will still show its hardware in late Q4 2009 just as they did with Geforce GTX 295 dual chip and ship it in early Q1 2010, as the strategy worked last time.

---

GT300 hasnt even had its final tape-out yet, so late q409 will be the best they could make, if everything goes perfect from now on. but im shure if they launch in 09 it will be a plaine paper launch. id bet on q110 for the real launch, much too late for amds evergreen...

Assuming it's actually worth showing then a paper/low-availability launch is expected. But launching one expensive out-of-stock part isn't going to help them much if the rumours of AMD's full 40nm lineup are true.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by trinibwoy

Assuming it's actually worth showing then a paper/low-availability launch is expected. But launching one expensive out-of-stock part isn't going to help them much if the rumours of AMD's full 40nm lineup are true.

---

It's not rumours.
And it will be a paper launch of GT300, pretty sure, so worthless tbh. Just for some fans to cheer...

is this really gt300?
almost sounds like they renamed a GT200 40nm shrink gt300 :P
i wonder if they really said dx11 or if fudzilla assumed that... it might be 10.1 and GT200 based and not GT300...
not the first time nvidia did this when the next gen was delayed...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zalbard

It's not rumours.

---

Because you said so or?

ATi will be launching their DirectX 11 GPU in November and nVidia will also be launching their DirectX11 GPU in November too...interesting times :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

ATi will be launching their DirectX 11 GPU in November and nVidia will also be launching their DirectX11 GPU in November too...interesting times :)

---

o rly?
o.O

A paper launch before the holiday season can't be a smart move. They'll lose sales from current GPUs as people will holdout until the new year for the GT300. I'd venture to say that Christmas-time has to be a big sales period for Nvidia/ATI. Eh, what do I know. I'm just a fool who keeps buying this crap. :)

A GT300 holdout is better for them than somebody who takes the AMD plunge.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by w0mbat

o rly?
o.O

---

LoL.

@JohnZS- current word is September-ish.

Though I'm pretty sure that w0mbat knows the exact dates but can't tell us.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LordEC911

LoL, current word is September-ish.

---

Yeah I also go the impression that ATI would be ready way before offical Windows 7 launch, which is in October.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zalbard

It's not rumours.

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by trinibwoy

Because you said so or?

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dingDong

because he said so?

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by spinalchill

he said she said its not rumours thats it

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MobozarItchie

O' Rly?

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson

Doh?

---

will you guys give it a rest? :rofl:

on topic, i cant wait for this, see that guy over there? in december holding a GTX300 DX11 Nvidia card? thats me that is....

is this a totally official news? or just another "new" newer ending story...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by prznar1

is this a totally official news? or just another "new" newer ending story...

---

Pure FUD.

I hope they bring 2gb as the standard for highend cards. That way we can raise the bar for next-generation game's highest settings... and along with DX11 of course.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

ATi will be launching their DirectX 11 GPU in November and nVidia will also be launching their DirectX11 GPU in November too...interesting times :)

---

Rumor last I heard was the dual gpu card is to be released in November ( eg R770 end of June, R700 in August )

Unless these new ATI cards blow the socks off the current offerings, I'll probably wait out the GT300 models.

As far as seeing 2GB reference, that is tough to say. As much as I'd like to see this happen, it might be to soon. Anyways the efficiency improvements of DX11 will reduce memory usage if anything so the only benefit of more memory would be higher resolution textures and at the end of the day developers will code for what is common meaning 512-1GB cards of today ( save for a few rare cases like GTA4, nothing realistically will use more than 1GB as it stands ; mods don't count ) I'm sure they'll be sporting some really fast GDDR5 at the very least but 2GB might be a tad wishful at this point.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Chickenfeed

Rumor last I heard was the dual gpu card is to be released in November ( eg R770 end of June, R700 in August )

Unless these new ATI cards blow the socks off the current offerings, I'll probably wait out the GT300 models.

As far as seeing 2GB reference, that is tough to say. As much as I'd like to see this happen, it might be to soon. Anyways the efficiency improvements of DX11 will reduce memory usage if anything so the only benefit of more memory would be higher resolution textures and at the end of the day developers will code for what is common meaning 512-1GB cards of today ( save for a few rare cases like GTA4, nothing realistically will use more than 1GB as it stands ; mods don't count ) I'm sure they'll be sporting some really fast GDDR5 at the very least but 2GB might be a tad wishful at this point.

---

it probably will be because the 512 bit interface. so these cards are gonna be BIG

Oh, Fud. But at least we've heard about this GT300 for now,:D. nVidia is gone dead silent about this anyway.

Come on, we want new GPUs to have some more marks !! =D

It's interesting that NVIDIA isn't trying to talk up their product more. Either they've really got something up their sleeve, or they're not sure they can beat ATI this round. Whether that's due to a performance or product lead-time standpoint is anyone's guess.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

It's interesting that NVIDIA isn't trying to talk up their product more. Either they've really got something up their sleeve, or they're not sure they can beat ATI this round. Whether that's due to a performance or product lead-time standpoint is anyone's guess.

---

There's nothing to talk up. 40nm DX10.1 is late and DX11 is even more late.

Perkam

be pretty lame if it was another g80

i mean... what would we call the next "g80" revolution? the gt300?

i want some AMD revolutions like instead of g80 revolution we could say

the "OVER 9000" revolution (corresponding thousand number to product series)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by orangekiwii

be pretty lame if it was another g80

i mean... what would we call the next "g80" revolution? the gt300?

i want some AMD revolutions like instead of g80 revolution we could say

the "OVER 9000" revolution (corresponding thousand number to product series)

---

then this years model was a 4800 uprising?

from a price-performance perspective but

it wasn't a g80 in terms of next generation performance (stellar but not a g80 imo)

Idk I want something that absolutely leaves no doubt that it is the future and it makes buying any older gen cards seem stupid because the new cards absolutely rape them :) [instead of the average 20% increase over the previous generation] g80 was like what 50% at least in like everything?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by orangekiwii

from a price-performance perspective but

it wasn't a g80 in terms of next generation performance (stellar but not a g80 imo)

---

You see, just performance ignoring the price isn't the way to go. If you're interested in that, get 4x 4890.
Pushing a flexible chip most people can get their hands on means more optimisations and higher performance after all. So ATI didn't really lose there.
Making extremely huge cores with insane performance is good ofc, but for 99% of people that's like using LN2 to cool their CPUs. Too expensive to get and too demanding to the rest of the hardware to be really worth it.

Yeah but lowering the price doesn't make the chip any faster. We still want to see the tech move forward. I don't think anybody would be impressed if they came out with a $50 part that was as fast as the 4890. Great perf/$ but then what?

No 4x 4890 isn't a revolution thats just money...

revolution is getting more than the performance of that 4x 4890 in one card in one generation jump at a reasonable price like the g80's started at...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by trinibwoy

I don't think anybody would be impressed if they came out with a $50 part that was as fast as the 4890. Great perf/$ but then what?

---

Hell yes, if 4890 was 50$ I'd get 4 for sure.
DirectX 11 is just around the corner so you'll soon see all these innovations you're looking for. But pray for some manufacturer (*cough*, ATI) to release some sort of mainstream solution, otherwise, if we got stuck with 500+ $ chips (which we won't) for a while, we wouldn't see real DirectX 11 games for ages so all these innovations would be useless and buying a Dx11 card with crappy perf/$ would be nearly pointless.

Yep but you wouldn't have anything better than what you can go out and buy today. Excellent bang for the buck wasn't invented with RV770 you know....it's just one in a line of great cards (from both companies).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zalbard

Hell yes, if 4890 was 50$ I'd get 4 for sure.
DirectX 11 is just around the corner so you'll soon see all these innovations you're looking for. But pray for some manufacturer (*cough*, ATI) to release some sort of mainstream solution, otherwise, if we got stuck with 500+ $ chips (which we won't) for a while, we wouldn't see real DirectX 11 games for ages so all these innovations would be useless and buying a Dx11 card with crappy perf/$ would be nearly pointless.

---

well why not wait a few months and do wonders for your electricity bill. 4890 xfire would use over a kilowatt. dx11 is a superset of dx10 so dx10 cards and consoles can play all new games.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by w0mbat

GT300 hasnt even had its final tape-out yet, so late q409 will be the best they could make, if everything goes perfect from now on. but im shure if they launch in 09 it will be a plaine paper launch. id bet on q110 for the real launch, much too late for amds evergreen...

---

Based on the leaked specs of RV870 and G300, it should be quite a bit faster than evergreen. I can't wait for G300 and will get one as soon as volume shipments start and price stabilizes from the initial launch and demand frenzy.

You know...somehow... I told you guys so. ;)

Small shipments in Q4, volume shipments in Q1.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by AuDioFreaK39

You know...somehow... I told you guys so. ;)

Small shipments in Q4, volume shipments in Q1.

---

yes, you and a couple hundred people following internet rumors and leaked roadmaps :P

but how do you define small shippments and q4?
if nvidia ships 25 review samples worldwide as christmas gifts on december 20ieth, does that count as small shippments in q4?

you can stretch small shippments in q4 a lot... :D

If this is true, yay. Of course, most of us know that Fudzilla isn't always very reliable. But yeah, I would love to see both ATI and NVIDIA release their new generation at the same time, would be interesting.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Chrono Detector

If this is true, yay. Of course, most of us know that Fudzilla isn't always very reliable. But yeah, I would love to see both ATI and NVIDIA release their new generation at the same time, would be interesting.

---

Well that won't happen unless someone burns ATI's stock of cards to the ground. ATI will be first to hit this time around, no doubt about it.

Go Nvidia...

First out with a DX11 Monster GPU would be sweet. (I think it's this year too!)

Would the 5870X2 count as a monster card? If ATI really wanna push, they might have that available too, before nV are ready to supply DX11 cards in volume.

Even if nVs solution bests the X2, it wouldnt be the first monster...and the ATI card would probably be cheaper in the perf/£ dept. :p:

ATI want DX11 card availability in ADVANCE of W7 launch. nV are hoping to match the release date at best?

If anyone wants to pin me as an ATI fanboi... stop being dim and check my HWB submissions page.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by perkam

There's nothing to talk up. 40nm DX10.1 is late and DX11 is even more late.

Perkam

---

This is true, but you'd expect them to be rattling their spears or something so they don't look completely shafted.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

This is true, but you'd expect them to be rattling their spears or something so they don't look completely shafted.

---

thats now how nvidia does it, they usually shut up and save their breath and once they have a new product ready they use all their saved breath to try and blow their pr into your ears and brain :D

[Gladiator]

...pour a honeyed potion in your ear and one morning you'll wake up screaming nVidia! nVidia!

[/Gladiator]

This would be great news if true, but I'm concerned about it being a monster chip again (yeah, I know that's exactly what it's expected to be). Monster chips mean premium prices, and I'm more of a guy of 200€ videocards than 500€ ones. I'm starting to fear a DX11 chips debut with no real competence between manufacturers, with AMD targeting performance segment and below, and NVIDIA starting by the enthusiast segment only. I'd be glad of seeing the NVIDIA's performance offering ASAP...

At least, this should force AMD to price their performance products with performance segment prices, instead of letting them have the only DX11 cards (and the fastest ones) to price them too high...

I believe this time (the DX11 graphic cards debut) will be more like the last generation (R700 vs GT200) launch was meant to be, before the NVIDIA's monster chips were known to be not faster enough to justify the price premium that their enthusiast segment focus should have meant.

Heck, I'd love they'd target the value and performance segments first... even knowing that many of you would get pissed off :p:

hopefully the GT300 will be a good candidate to replace my old 8800GT XD

Should be a fast F@H card! :up:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Talonman

Should be a fast F@H card! :up:

---

its a brand new architecture and it uses MIMD so to really get the most out of this card stanford might have to create a new gpu client for this card and future nvidia cards.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Talonman

Should be a fast F@H card! :up:

---

It might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like ATI is making many changes in terms of GPGPU and isn't going to catch up much, if at all.

no way I believe this is true, tape-out hasn't even happened yet and it's ~3 months more after that before we see production cards being sold.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Talonman

Should be a fast F@H card! :up:

---

definately! but how good of a graphics card is it going to be?

and no matter how good itll be in f@h, i think larrabee will kill it in anything gpgpu...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

It might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like ATI is making many changes in terms of GPGPU and isn't going to catch up much, if at all.

---

On the flip-side Nvidia might not be able to catch up in perf/mm^2 if they continue focusing too much on GPGPU. Games just aren't being built to take advantage of their architectural decisions (low IPC, lots of dynamic branching).

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LedHed

no way I believe this is true, tape-out hasn't even happened yet and it's ~3 months more after that before we see production cards being sold.

---

Sounds like you're selectively choosing which rumours to believe.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Chumbucket843

if you are too lazy to click on the link:

---

yes that is me :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

It might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like ATI is making many changes in terms of GPGPU and isn't going to catch up much, if at all.

---

If you ask me we should wait and see what DX11 and OpenCL will bring to the table.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

It might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like ATI is making many changes in terms of GPGPU and isn't going to catch up much, if at all.

---

gpgpu derivatives are new to world and doesnt have much useful applications that are meaningful ( :D what a sentence ). ati has time to catch up it is not matter think of first x64 cpus most of them sold before seeing a 64 bit os

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Oberon

It might be. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like ATI is making many changes in terms of GPGPU and isn't going to catch up much, if at all.

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by FischOderAal

If you ask me we should wait and see what DX11 and OpenCL will bring to the table.

---

Hmmm... you are making things too easy for me Fisch, you are saying exactly what I say but post it earlier.
OpenCL seems to be AMD/ATi's main focus for GPGPU.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by kromosto

gpgpu derivatives are new to world and doesnt have much useful applications that are meaningful ( :D what a sentence ). ati has time to catch up it is not matter think of first x64 cpus most of them sold before seeing a 64 bit os

---

And most multi-core chips were out LONG before any software was ready to take advantage of it... (and most still aren't...)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zalbard

It's not rumours.
And it will be a paper launch of GT300, pretty sure, so worthless tbh. Just for some fans to cheer...

---

It's not worthless if it convinces some people to wait.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LordEC911

Hmmm... you are making things too easy for me Fisch, you are saying exactly what I say but post it earlier.
OpenCL seems to be AMD/ATi's main focus for GPGPU.

---

You can't really "focus" on OpenCL though. It's pretty much the exact same programming model as CUDA and CS. So if you're good at one, you're good at all.

Whoever is writing the code will pick the gpu thas suit their algorthm the best and optimize it. Different programs will run faster on diff gpus.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Chumbucket843

Whoever is writing the code will pick the gpu thas suit their algorthm the best and optimize it. Different programs will run faster on diff gpus.

---

Agreed. :D

I'm want to see a GPU that has decent double-precision floating-point support.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cybercat

It's not worthless if it convinces some people to wait.

---

yeah thats what those gt300 rumors are all about, and thats why having even 1 working gt300 prototype will be very very valuable for nvidia, cause as long as they have something, anything, that looks tasty and they can hold in front of their customers or potential customers, at least some people will freak out and wait for it, even if its 6 months away :D

i remember how some people said they wouldnt upgrade their vga cause they are waiting for larrabee, and that was when it was just anounced :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by saaya

yeah thats what those gt300 rumors are all about, and thats why having even 1 working gt300 prototype will be very very valuable for nvidia, cause as long as they have something, anything, that looks tasty and they can hold in front of their customers or potential customers, at least some people will freak out and wait for it, even if its 6 months away :D

i remember how some people said they wouldnt upgrade their vga cause they are waiting for larrabee, and that was when it was just anounced :lol:

---

Thing is, if we're talking about what NVIDIA will do when the RV870 launches, they don't even have to ask people to wait 6 months or even close to that. Just a few months later (no more than four I'd say) they'll have their cards out in quantity. This is a very different situation from the past where NVIDIA lead the way, but by no means is this NVIDIA's R600. Yes it's late, but it's not deal-breaking late, like some people want to claim:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by perkam

There's nothing to talk up. 40nm DX10.1 is late and DX11 is even more late.

Perkam

---

The difference between DX10.1 and this is NVIDIA was trying to ignore DX10.1. A lot of the optimizations available with it worked on their DX10 hardware, and the only reason I can think of to add support with 40nm chips was because there was no reason not to. Is DX11 even more late than DX10.1 parts? I don't know, does a few months equate to longer than a year plus?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cybercat

The difference between DX10.1 and this is NVIDIA was trying to ignore DX10.1. A lot of the optimizations available with it worked on their DX10 hardware, and the only reason I can think of to add support with 40nm chips was because there was no reason not to. Is DX11 even more late than DX10.1 parts? I don't know, does a few months equate to longer than a year plus?

---

What was the reason for NOT using it on the GT200? I mean, DX10.1 had been out for quite some time when they launched... And four months is pretty bad actually. Especially when those for months consist of Win7 launch AND Christmas season... But of course, they could always say "but we've got CUDA and PhysX so it doesn't matter if loose in everything else.."

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cybercat

Thing is, if we're talking about what NVIDIA will do when the RV870 launches, they don't even have to ask people to wait 6 months or even close to that. Just a few months later (no more than four I'd say) they'll have their cards out in quantity. This is a very different situation from the past where NVIDIA lead the way, but by no means is this NVIDIA's R600. Yes it's late, but it's not deal-breaking late, like some people want to claim:

---

LMAO, how can you say all that when it isn't even close to being released?
The main thing is that it is possibly so delayed that some aren't even sure they can hit Q1 '10... Even if they do, if AMD really does launch in Sept, that is 6 months to the end of Q1 '10.

This thread makes me :)
I really like how you are all convinced that nVidia are a long way off releasing their DirectX11 GPU and that ATi will release in September.
IMHO ATi might be before nVidia......but only by a matter of weeks.. 1 month at most. ATi will arrive in late October/Early November, nVidia will arrive Mid November/Early December.
Stock shortages for BOTH vendors will persist until Mid Jan 2010.
John

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

This thread makes me :)
I really like how you are all convinced that nVidia are a long way off releasing their DirectX11 GPU and that ATi will release in September.
IMHO ATi might be before nVidia......but only by a matter of weeks.. 1 month at most. ATi will arrive in late October/Early November, nVidia will arrive Mid November/Early December.
Stock shortages for BOTH vendors will persist until Mid Jan 2010.
John

---

The thing is that everyone's claims that ATI will beat NVIDIA to market by quite a bit are at least substantiated by a number of rumours, and we've seen working silicon from ATI. If NVIDIA is only a matter of weeks behind, I'd bet my life savings that they'd have at least gotten a few reporters together behind closed doors to show something.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

This thread makes me :)
I really like how you are all convinced that nVidia are a long way off releasing their DirectX11 GPU and that ATi will release in September.
IMHO ATi might be before nVidia......but only by a matter of weeks.. 1 month at most. ATi will arrive in late October/Early November, nVidia will arrive Mid November/Early December.
Stock shortages for BOTH vendors will persist until Mid Jan 2010.
John

---

Ummm did you miss both conference calls?
AMD said they will have cards out BY Windows 7 launch.
Nvidia had to side-step any sort of statement.

I am more amused by you, and some others, being convinced that this ~480mm2 40nm chip is more than on-schedule.
Less than a week ago, CJ confirmed that G300 hasn't been taped-out for a long time.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by marten_larsson

What was the reason for NOT using it on the GT200? I mean, DX10.1 had been out for quite some time when they launched... And four months is pretty bad actually. Especially when those for months consist of Win7 launch AND Christmas season... But of course, they could always say "but we've got CUDA and PhysX so it doesn't matter if loose in everything else.."

---

I suggest you ask NVIDIA that question. Obviously they didn't feel it was important enough, and I'm inclined to agree.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LordEC911

LMAO, how can you say all that when it isn't even close to being released?
The main thing is that it is possibly so delayed that some aren't even sure they can hit Q1 '10... Even if they do, if AMD really does launch in Sept, that is 6 months to the end of Q1 '10.

---

Four months after RV870 is my guess. Are we not allowed to speculate?

No you're not.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cybercat

Four months after RV870 is my guess. Are we not allowed to speculate?

---

No, go right ahead. I am all for speculation, that is my forte.
I just have to disagree with what you were speculating.
IMO, 4 months after RV870 would be a best case scenario, i.e. everything goes smoothly here on out.

Gentlemen,
All I am saying is that.... remember a certain "Can O' Whoop Ass" comment which was uttered by a certain "Founder and CEO" prior to the GT200 launch?

Now... didn't that can explode into the face of the CEO who said that he would open this?

Wouldn't it be wise to assume that he would have learned from his lesson this time around, and instead will act differently and instead go for tactics of "Shock and Awe"

We have a saying here that "Empty barrels make the most noise, but those full of bounty do not.."

ATi, could either fail to impress (HD2900/3800) OR "do a G80", we just do not know...

John

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by LedHed

no way I believe this is true, tape-out hasn't even happened yet and it's ~3 months more after that before we see production cards being sold.

---

The first tape-out of the GT300 was back in January/Feb of 2009. And nVidia had a far more refined tape-out which was announced in Santa Clara, CA in May, 2009.

I see absolutely no reason why the GT300 cards will not be ready by Q4 2009 considering their first tape out was over 7 months ago.

While in the past couple years, I've been quite skeptical regarding nVidia's recent claims about their forthcoming chips. But this time seems quite different and brings back memories of how quiet nVidia was about the G80.

Typically companies who run their mouths all the time about their upcoming "groundbreaking" GPU/CPU.... it almost always ends in disaster. (FX series of nVidia cards).

I'm even becoming quite concerned for ATI/AMD because they're by far the more vocal of the two GPU manufacturers.

I have a feeling nVidia is going to release a beast of a card later this year.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Andrew LB

I'm even becoming quite concerned for ATI/AMD because they're by far the more vocal of the two GPU manufacturers.

I have a feeling nVidia is going to release a beast of a card later this year.

---

#1- Tape-outs aren't "announced" they are leaked/rumored/speculated on from sources.

Also I feel the complete opposite.
AMD/ATi is confident but not overly confident like they acted previously, R600/Phenom, or like Nvidia after G80.
On the flip-side Nvidia, while being somewhat silent about their new GPU, have been very vocal on numerous other projects which will be merged into this new GPU. I have a feeling Nvidia is spread too thin and is working on far too many different projects/products and needs to reapply focus on their core products.

Edit- Not exactly what I would like to use for "proof" but Charlie is thinking the same.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/...300-tapes-out/

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

This thread makes me :)
I really like how you are all convinced that nVidia are a long way off releasing their DirectX11 GPU and that ATi will release in September.
IMHO ATi might be before nVidia......but only by a matter of weeks.. 1 month at most. ATi will arrive in late October/Early November, nVidia will arrive Mid November/Early December.
Stock shortages for BOTH vendors will persist until Mid Jan 2010.
John

---

Not all of us... :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Andrew LB

The first tape-out of the GT300 was back in January/Feb of 2009. And nVidia had a far more refined tape-out which was announced in Santa Clara, CA in May, 2009.

I see absolutely no reason why the GT300 cards will not be ready by Q4 2009 considering their first tape out was over 7 months ago.

---

Source?
First tape out 7 months ago would mean nV is having HUGE problems with the chip.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by JohnZS

This thread makes me :)
I really like how you are all convinced that nVidia are a long way off releasing their DirectX11 GPU and that ATi will release in September.

Stock shortages for BOTH vendors will persist until Mid Jan 2010.
John

---

Well, you make me :)

You thread crap everywhere about how you can't buy ATI cards in the uk.

I've now bought my 40th ati 5 series card.

10 of which in the first two weeks of launch.

40

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides

I've now bought my 40th ati 5 series card.

---

Jesus, what do you need so many cards for?! :eek:

Supply picked up just in time for the Xmas rush. The cynic in me says that was the plan all along. There's no longer a shortage and hasn't been since mid-late December. So that's hardly an excuse for the lack of a Fermi release date.

ATi has the GPU features, performance and value sewn up to the point that very few new builds currently have nvidia GPUs (unless they're on a bottom feeder motherboard). We're over half way through Q1 2010 and still no Ferming up. nVidia are looking increasingly impotent.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides

Well, you make me :)

You thread crap everywhere about how you can't buy ATI cards in the uk.

I've now bought my 40th ati 5 series card.

10 of which in the first two weeks of launch.

40

---

:shocked:

That is 10 times the cards i have lol, i do milkyway@home 24/7 what do you do.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zalbard

Jesus, what do you need so many cards for?! :eek:

---

I'm interested as well. Are we talking about e-peen here? Folding farm? Building for others/customers?

Nice thread revival. Fud was only off by half a year.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by jaredpace

Nice thread revival. Fud was only off by half a year.

---

hey, its not out yet... :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by ajaidev

:shocked:

That is 10 times the cards i have lol, i do milkyway@home 24/7 what do you do.

---

Used to head up a small business as the online sales director.

I got 2 cards at launch for my brothers and the rest went to the companies systems so we could play some team fortress 2 at work

The job was automated by me and quite easy for my team so I told the business owner that we work best when relaxing and the sales figures were always getting strengthened so he was cool about our relaxed attitude

My own personal pc is a celeron 352 with a 4670

history is a fickle bit@@ dont you agree ???