Quote Originally Posted by Macadamia View Post
Problem was - nobody cared anymore. (2900XT)

Yet nVidia's biggest problem isn't just rushing Fermi out. The whole company seems to have a problem with management and execution not going in sync, and a lot of their grand ambitions in previous years although accomplished to an extent (Consumer CUDA apps etc) are now not really worked on anymore.

And how much power would GF104 take then? How fast will it perform relative to its power consumption? And if this 275W faceplant is true, how the heck are you still gonna get the midrange in laptops?
In so many ways that its ironically funny, nVidia's current situation mirrors AMD Phenom vs Intel.

Phenom was supposed to be better architecture - native quad. Ended up delayed quite a lot. Like Fermi, its was bigger chip vs Intel's simpler Core2 quad solution.

But, the "real" problem revealed itself 1 year later. Many notebooks and low-end PC continued to ship with Core2 - AMD couldn't put Phenom was too big and power hungry for notebook.

Likewise, unless nVidia is keeping the best secret of all time, they will fail big time in mid-range and low-end (and thus total DX11 revenue). AMD's already saturated market for 6 months. Even if nVidia launched TODAY, they can't turn back time and make up so many months, and AMD can easily cut prices making market penetration very difficult.

EDIT: IMHO I dont think nVidia mid-range will launch in March, or even April.