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
Can fanboys really get any worse? The shortage of 58xx was also due to dell buying hundreds of thousands of them at once. Isnt that alot of money made? Just for the record my 5850 owns your gtx 285 at a lower price in all games. 5700 were always available too. NOTHING NVIDIA HAS IS IMPRESSIVE (no this is not fanboy talk)

EDIT: apple buying 4870s by the thousands brings money in for amd too.