XbitLabs: Over 800 Thousand of DirectX 11 Graphics Chips Shipped – ATI

[kadozer]

My first News post so go easy

From Xbit Labs: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...ipped_ATI.html

ATI Radeon HD 5000 Faces Massive Success, Says Company
[12/14/2009 01:06 PM]
by Anton Shilov

ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, said on Monday that it had shipped over 800 thousand of graphics processing units (GPUs) that support DirectX 11 application programming interface. The rather high number of rather expensive graphics chips sold during the global economic downturn emphasizes the interest towards discrete graphics cards for desktops and PC gaming in general.

The company said that so far it has shipped over 500 thousand ATI Radeon HD 5700-series graphics processing units code-named Juniper and over 300 thousand graphics chips known as Cypress that power ATI Radeon HD 5800-/5900-series graphics adapters. Thanks to partly resolved supply issues with 40nm chips, AMD’s graphics business unit seems to have high chances of shipping around a million of DirectX 11-supporting graphics processors this year.

ATI’s DirectX 11 lineup consists of several offerings and covers performance mainstream, high-end and enthusiast market segments. The most affordable DirectX 11 graphics card – ATI Radeon HD 5750 is available for about $140 in the U.S. – whereas the most expensive – ATI Radeon HD 5970 – costs over $600.

Good sales of the latest graphics cards will help Advanced Micro Devices to post greater revenue and profits for this quarter. AMD reports its results for the current quarter in approximately a month time, on January, 22, 2010.

Shipments of ATI’s new product family were slowed down by poor yields of 40nm chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. As a result, the actual demand towards the new high-end graphics cards from ATI/AMD is considerably higher than supply.

At present ATI’s arch-rival Nvidia Corp. does not offer DirectX 11-supporting graphics processors, which is a yet another reason why the demand towards the new Radeon HD 5000 family greatly exceeds supply. DirectX 11 provides better performance and higher quality images in next-generation PC video games.

Also Related from same Website: Sales of DirectX 11 GPUs to Surpass Sales of DirectX 10 GPUs Next Year

[spicypixel]

Thats a good boost for the case of DirectCompute/OpenCL applications then
That and DX11 gaming

[N19h7m4r3]

Blimey that's amazing news!

I've recently even seen 5770's for around 130-145 euro at some places with supply, so this is great.

Now just to get a good supply for all those 58xx cards and they should have great December sales.

So tempted to buy a card, but I've no need for one yet.

[zalbard]

Just in time for Christmas!
Should be enough for most people I guess.

[Piotrsama]

I think some of you think this is a whole shipment of new cards.
But no, it's how many cards have been shipped since 5870 launch. Anyways, it's a big number.

[wuttz]

nvidia DX11 GPU shipment/sales: 0
i wonder who else should be sitting in santa's lap.

[Aerwidh]

That's quite a number of cards

[BenchZowner]

Low and mid-end are ok and easy to find.
The 5870 & 5970 is very hard to find in stock and of course, there's the terrible price-gouging...

[eric66]

5970 reached 670 dolars in newegg

[Florinmocanu]

nvidia DX11 GPU shipment/sales: 0
i wonder who else should be sitting in santa's lap.

Santa brings gifts to everyone...

[eric66]

haha nice thats probably Jens nightmare

[N19h7m4r3]

Haha that's brilliant.

[Sesto Sento]

that's quite a bunch of money that is entering to AMD.
If they reach the 1 million mark as it's spoken here, they will earn 230 millions of €

Take into account for this, 600000 pieces @ 150€ (5750/5770) and 400000 pieces @ 350€ (5870's). This will bring a total of 90 million € for the 5770's and 140 million € for the 5870's.
I don't have any idea how much does it cost AMD to manufacture 1 card, but i suppose it costs at maximum, half the price they are sold out, so it's more or less 115000000€ profit, quite nice isn't it?

[eric66]

they will easily pass 1000000 until fermi launch if tmsc won't screw up again

[RPGWiZaRD]

Santa brings gifts to everyone...

Haha that's a really funny pic. Exactly what I needed during this rather boring Linux class I'm having atm.

Fermi better be good when it finally arrives, otherwise nvidia will lose a lot of market share in 2010.

[dinos22]

5970 reached 670 dolars in newegg

lol is that it
we have companies trying to sell them as high as ~US1100
our cheapest prices are around US$750

price gouging at 670 lol......

[Nedjo]

My first News post so go easy

great news indeed! for the future reference if you want to point out news source in thread title use some of the folowing shorcuts:
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[annihilat0r]

that's quite a bunch of money that is entering to AMD.
If they reach the 1 million mark as it's spoken here, they will earn 230 millions of €

Take into account for this, 600000 pieces @ 150€ (5750/5770) and 400000 pieces @ 350€ (5870's). This will bring a total of 90 million € for the 5770's and 140 million € for the 5870's.
I don't have any idea how much does it cost AMD to manufacture 1 card, but i suppose it costs at maximum, half the price they are sold out, so it's more or less 115000000€ profit, quite nice isn't it?

Hi, neither AMD nor Nvidia sell cards, they only sell GPUs. And I believe a full Cypress should be selling for around $150, without the RAMs

[DeathReborn]

It's all well & good but out of a monthly amount of ~7,000,000 units it's only around 10% of the total shipped out. Miles better than 0% from ALL the competition (nVidia, intel, S3, matrox etc) though. They could easily sell 3-4x that number if the supply (damn you TSMC) was there.

[skugpezz]

Low and mid-end are ok and easy to find.
The 5870 & 5970 is very hard to find in stock and of course, there's the terrible price-gouging...

The have constantly been in stock for weeks now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0Video%20Cards

[Periander6]

The have constantly been in stock for weeks now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0Video%20Cards

Heh, that link shows only one of seven SKUs in stock, and when you try to add that one to your cart it indicates that you can only get it as part of a $4,700 bundle. But yeah, it has been getting better, slowly.

[Nedjo]

It's all well & good but out of a monthly amount of ~7,000,000 units it's only around 10% of the total shipped out. Miles better than 0% from ALL the competition (nVidia, intel, S3, matrox etc) though. They could easily sell 3-4x that number if the supply (damn you TSMC) was there.

where did you came up with 7 Mill per month figure?

[skugpezz]

Heh, that link shows only one of seven SKUs in stock, and when you try to add that one to your cart it indicates that you can only get it as part of a $4,700 bundle. But yeah, it has been getting better, slowly.

wow now only 1 is in stock ......

[BenchZowner]

The have constantly been in stock for weeks now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0Video%20Cards

This is the point where we laugh out loud right ?

[Motiv]

Heh, that link shows only one of seven SKUs in stock, and when you try to add that one to your cart it indicates that you can only get it as part of a $4,700 bundle. But yeah, it has been getting better, slowly.

lol, brilliant

Only 1 in stock and only availble if you spend a small fortune.