Nvidia misses GTX470/480 launch targets

[trinibwoy]

^ G210, GT220, GT240 are all 40nm. At the last quarterly call they claimed they were selling all the 40nm they could get but I wouldn't be surprised if G92b's are still being produced on 55nm. That's still a moneypot.

[Manicdan]

^ G210, GT220, GT240 are all 40nm. At the last quarterly call they claimed they were selling all the 40nm they could get but I wouldn't be surprised if G92b's are still being produced on 55nm. That's still a moneypot.

o cool, thanks for the reminder, for a while i thought GF100 was their first 40nm, but i remember those now

[Olivon]

@ Neweeg yesterday...EVGA 480 sold out in 15 minutes and PNY in 30 minutes.

Wheres BFG?

Next batch for these cards will be $550 probly..

http://nowinstock.net/computers/nvidia/gtx480/

There are some GTX 470 on NewEgg 350 $

[Cybercat]

It seems a 'scoop' is worth more than the truth to some.

And with that, Charlie just summed up his entire journalistic career.

[flippin_waffles]

Ill take charlies word over focus group members any day or night of the week. And since its impossible to tell who is and isn't part of the focus group, that leaves me trusting charlie over any pro-nv member on the web. Not to mention that charlie's info has been proven quite reliable. So factor in the focus group viral marketing and all the charlie bashing starts to make sense!

[GoldenTiger]

OP doesn't really have a neutral stance towards nvidia, thats obvious. Nor do many of you, going either way.

But in all honesty, the 8,000 card figure is conjecture. he has no evidence to support that statement. he's just throwing numbers around.

Its true, europe is getting f'd right now the GTX 480/470s... but thats normal for nvidia. Not to mention, he's probably basing european figures as the basis for his argument as its probably the only place where he has cold hard evidence.

Yep, agreed... definite anti-nv bias there and nothing to back it up.

My evga gtx470 already shipped from newegg today .

[Movieman]

AndreYang has the missing 22 thousand

Now this made me smile!

[Cybercat]

Ill take charlies word over focus group members any day or night of the week. And since its impossible to tell who is and isn't part of the focus group, that leaves me trusting charlie over any pro-nv member on the web. Not to mention that charlie's info has been proven quite reliable. So factor in the focus group viral marketing and all the charlie bashing starts to make sense!

yeah, 280, 275, 300 watt tdp were all correct. he even guessed before the chip even existed. he said it was only 5% faster than a 5870, more like 20% and even better with min framerates. he was wrong about launch dates. he was wrong about # of shaders. he also said nvidia would be terrible at tessellation and it was emulated in software, not true either. i could keep going but i have proved my point.

Let me ask you a rhetorical question waffles. How big does the pile of crap have to be before you start to smell it?

[Mungri]

Hmm lets se

you have a anti nVidia Avatar
You have anti nVidia quotes
You have 2 slow ATI cards in your rig
are you Charlie

I think the reaction to his articles is more of a 'the truth hurts' type of thing.

All that and my ATI cards are slow? ??? ???? ????

I've yet to find a game that I cant run.

Better than anything that Nvidia sell for the same price, which is why I bought them. Ive had a Gefore 2 MX, Geforce 3, and Geforce 6800 SLI setups too, since then ATI have just better cards for the money IMO.

[Andrew LB]

Hmm lets se

you have a anti nVidia Avatar
You have anti nVidia quotes
You have 2 slow ATI cards in your rig
are you Charlie

I'm quite sure Charlie has 2x 5970's in his rig... courtesy of his masters @ ATi.

But in all honesty, the 8,000 card figure is conjecture. he has no evidence to support that statement. he's just throwing numbers around.

That's what Charlie does. He throws out different numbers all the time much like thoroughly proven with his Radeon 5870 predictions, so by the release date... he can claim he was correct. Last fall, I made a post which gave a half dozen Charlie articles giving so many different numbers on SP's that he was bound to get one of them correct.

It's still hilarious that people believe this guy.

At least he was honorable enough to accept defeat and endured utter humiliation a while back when he lost a wager with an Intel executive. The end result was him having to wear this bunny suit at a convention for all to enjoy.

There are some GTX 470 on NewEgg 350 $

Newegg also has the EVGA GTX 480 available for $499.

Hmm.... my credit card is becoming restless...

[Sn0wm@n]

LOLL charlie at work again

but then again hes been right all along concering ferbi .....

[Mungri]

Still not a single one available in the UK.

[ajaidev]

In India you can pre order but they say shipping will be after 12th

http://www.lynx-india.com/index.php?...36mb-ddr5-hdmi

[JohnZS]

Still not a single one available in the UK.

GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards are not due to launch in the UK until the 12th of April!
Stock in the UK is going to be very low, but this was to be expected. I recall it was not until December that ATi 5800 series cards were readily available in the UK with the 5900 series not being available until January/Feb

As much as I am an nVidia fanboy, (please post a fanboy alert motivational poster for me). There IS often some truth hidden in Charlie's Stories, however you need to read around the spin and his opinion.

nVidia probably have missed their targets, most likely by 8,000. NOT only having 8,000 units to ship out world wide.

He has been right about key points on a lot of things, and the occasions he is wrong I put down to either translation or he was getting carried away in having a "journalistic moment".

At the end of the day, his site is called Semi Accurate for a reason, more often than not his story has half truths.

John

[Sn0wm@n]

GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards are not due to launch in the UK until the 12th of April!
Stock in the UK is going to be very low, but this was to be expected. I recall it was not until December that ATi 5800 series cards were readily available in the UK with the 5900 series not being available until January/Feb

As much as I am an nVidia fanboy, (please post a fanboy alert motivational poster for me). There IS often some truth hidden in Charlie's Stories, however you need to read around the spin and his opinion.

nVidia probably have missed their targets, most likely by 8,000. NOT only having 8,000 units to ship out world wide.

He has been right about key points on a lot of things, and the occasions he is wrong I put down to either translation or he was getting carried away in having a "journalistic moment".

At the end of the day, his site is called Semi Accurate for a reason, more often than not his story has half truths.

John

wasnt there another charlie created rumor about only 8000 good chips a while ago ??? the risk waffers ??? and then the next batch would come late + at a higher premium????

[Sn0wm@n]

Yep, agreed... definite anti-nv bias there and nothing to back it up.

My evga gtx470 already shipped from newegg today .

proof????

[annihilat0r]

He meant it shipped, he didn't mean he had the card.

[Sn0wm@n]

He meant it shipped, he didn't mean he had the card.

duh.....your a genious

[flippin_waffles]

Let me ask you a rhetorical question waffles. How big does the pile of crap have to be before you start to smell it?

Let me call your rhetorical, and raise you one... How big does that truth staring you in the face have to be before you see it!

[surfinhicdude]

Newegg also has the EVGA GTX 480 available for $499.

Hmm.... my credit card is becoming restless...

Gone now, hope you bought one when you had the chance.

[InCredible]

i find it funny most ppl call charlies articles bs then come in here and do the same thing..just on the opposite side(nvidia's)

u have to understand that when a journalist is writing stuff that hasn't been out yet..he can ONLY base it off what one hears or researches..so yea they aren't going to be right all the time..
and you also have to think how many times nvidia made changes to fermi before it finally came out..
one minute it was 512 cores next it wasn't ..he's only going by his sources..and when things are changed so are his articles about said product.

i dont believe everything i hear..but i do think this may be correct..and may be the reason XFX is not carrying any fermi flavors..?? just something to think about...

[Dumo]

i dont believe everything i hear..but i do think this may be correct..and may be the reason XFX is not carrying any fermi flavors..?? just something to think about...

BFG also absent, eventough GTX480 posted on their website.

Every story/rumor/gossip at least 55% truth and 45% fiction or 65% and 35%

[annihilat0r]

I don't believe this to be correct but there are several things which makes the Fermi launch a little bit "fishy", not the least of which (wow is there such a thing in English? lol) is the XFX's (and BFG's?) "hey we have the box, but we actually won't sell these cards" thing.

It almost looks as if Nvidia fooled everyone into thinking there would be tens of thousands of more Fermi products than there actually is. Almost.

[Clairvoyant129]

Ill take charlies word over focus group members any day or night of the week. And since its impossible to tell who is and isn't part of the focus group, that leaves me trusting charlie over any pro-nv member on the web. Not to mention that charlie's info has been proven quite reliable. So factor in the focus group viral marketing and all the charlie bashing starts to make sense!

But you wouldn't take any negative AMD/ATI news right?

[trinibwoy]

It almost looks as if Nvidia fooled everyone into thinking there would be tens of thousands of more Fermi products than there actually is.

Looks like they fooled themselves too