AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[zerazax]

I have the opposite feeling. If they are going to launch it, launch it early, even if they have no quantities to sell. That way the hype of the 6970 is derailed because it can no longer claim fastest GPU crown.

If NV had crap loads of cards to sell I could understand your reasoning(as they want to sell a crap load of cards before the 6970 comes out), but it sounds like quantities are horrendous. So NV is not launching this card early to make money obviously. I think launching such a low quantity product is to just steal your competitors fanfare.

This release is a pure marketing move. If the 6870 was launched before the gtx 460, the release of the gtx 460 would have been a crazy disappointment.

I think you have to ask yourself? Why would NV release a card that not going to be for sale immediately ahead of it competitor if at the very least it didn't beat it. Their is no logical reason to release it later.

Well, then why didn't Nvidia do so with Fermi v1.0? It works both ways here

[highoctane]

Well, then why didn't Nvidia do so with Fermi v1.0? It works both ways here

I would say because now they have an established product ready for market even if in limited numbers vs the challenges brought about in just getting v1.0 out of the labs and into the market. I mean we got A3 silicon on gf100, everything since has been A1 silicon hasn't it.

[tajoh111]

Well, then why didn't Nvidia do so with Fermi v1.0? It works both ways here

Because it wasn't ready at all(the card was a mess of wires until the beginning of the year) and reviews would not be the most positive(it wasn't really positive as it was), early models of the card were hitting 500-600mhz, sending such a disastrous card to reviewers would only make AMD look good as the 5870 would have been faster. The only reason NV would release it early is to get positive reviews, otherwise you would just be hyping your competitors up.

What would you think would happen if NV released a early gtx 480 release and it performed 10 percent less while consuming way more power? That's the answer to your question.

Even with the current edition of the gtx 480, considering what the card is, it was released to early and should have been fixed before it came out.

You could say the gtx 480 has a very beta feel to it and was released too early as quantities were bad and their was some obvious flaws in the chip design(no card should have a hole for cooling).