Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
how many people do you think are out there who can tell their mommy to go out to best buy and pick up a 580, then WAIT until xmas morning to open it up.

people who can afford a 500$ gpu, are the kind who buy something when the want, not when santa says so.

the loss of holiday sales for a 300$+ gpu is minimal compared to the total sales across the next 8-12 months before 28nm comes out. now if things were revered and the 6800s were late, then this holiday the 460s would take most of the pie.
I agree 6800 and closing the gap on 460 was way higher priority before christmas than getting Cayman out.
Dont forget 5970 still holds its own till Cayman is there.
For Nvidia priority was getting out a new product in time and it was a very good response and should boost their dx11 share up somewhat but not as significant as the 460 did.