The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[LordEC911]

It looks like something got wrong somewhere. Nvidia does not have any backup plan, if something delays it delays much more than any other company that has backup plans for occasions like this.

Jensen doesn't believe in backup plans. (Paraphrasing a quote)

Yeah, exactly, yields were bad, so the cards cost more to make, and the availability was low enough to keep high prices.

I wouldn't say yields are bad, TSMC didn't have enough capacity at the time. Simple economics, low supply and high demand = high prices.

Isn't this thing hitting the markets in March? Why we don't see any decent benchmarks and reviews?

AIBs are just getting their cards... Give it another week or two.

I as a CEO, If fermi was not ready for that month then I would play their game and do the same, release something with DX11 support and or something extra even if that is not as powerful as the 5800 series this new model would compete with the mainstream 5700 series or would give customers the DX11 feeling that they wanted and personally I think that this would not have weaken the brand as it is.

Not that simple. These designs are being worked on for 3-4 years before they are released. This isn't a simple, hey let's throw DX11 into the architecture and get it out next month since GF100 is having problems. There isn't much you can do as far as a backup plan in this industry the R&D costs are just way too high as it is.

I gotcha, it really does seem like they fell asleep at the wheel in regards to getting any dx11 hardware out the door. Both ATI and Nvidia seem to release the latest on the highend part first before releasing the lower parts so with gt300 delay's you would have thought some midrange to lower end parts would have been scheduled to release by now.

Why would that be the case? It seems AMD is dead set on using 28nm on its next graphic tech, which means at the minimum its going to be a 2011 part. That's a substantially longer wait. The sketchyness of 28nm just makes it actually timeline even less reliable.

Sketchy? I think not, at least for GF. TSMC, on the other hand, god help them.
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