Quote Originally Posted by Andrew LB View Post
Considering it was only in the past week or two that I was even able to find a 5870 in stock at an online store (because of production issues at TMSC), I'm not too worried about "missing the boat".

I highly doubt ATi even made any money on the very few 5870's released during October and November because of the 50% yield rate TMSC was still having through late November on the .40nm process.

And I still think it was a poor business move to release the card when they did, specifically because of the horrible yields and all the product their 3rd party card manufacturers are now stuck with on store shelves. Not much business sense to completely devalue your entire 4xxx product line by releasing a FAR faster card... when low yields prevent you from making money on it in addition to it not even being available to buy.

Newegg only has tons of HD4xxx cards in stock, with only a few of those models sold out. The same cannot be said for their stocks of nVidia cards since HALF of the GTX2xx models are sold out
A pure fanboy logic...

NVIDIA cards are "sold out" because NVIDIA all but officially cancelled their current "high end" offering; a sensible move since only fanboys would go for those GTXs right now.

And I guess it's really stupid to release a card on schedule and capture 100% of the early DX 11, right? I mean, come on, they didn't even wait for Fermi!!


BTW, if the 40nm yield problem persist, Fermi is in a much worse situation. The bigger the chip, the worse a yield problem will affect it. Pray that an A4 stepping is not required for a commercial release.