Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
1-2 months? thats not normal, thats a paper launch then... there are usually at least some cards available the same day a product launches or a few days after... thats a real launch... the 280 was available immediatly after launch, same for the 275 and 285...
I mean usually the company shows samples of the cards on some event (some Analysts day, computer show or so) and than 1-2 month later they release final version. If memory serves me well, NVIDIA did not officialy showed anything. They'll show it together with release? So I think there will be gap between the release and cards actually on stock.

About the RV770, whole chip was screwed in terms of power consumption...RV670 was pretty good at idle, RV770 sucked and RV870 follows the good RV670 tradition now...