Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
I have not seen a post by anyone on the forums about their 7990, it may be the worst selling high end launch of all time. So I checked at newegg, all out of stock, but only about 20 reviews for all five cards.

Then I went to Amazon, not selling them. So I went to Tiger Direct, one model, no reviews.

I tried Google Shopping, got the one on TigerDirect, and a couple more on Ebay.

The 7990 seems to truly be The Card That Time Forgot.

You'd think AMD would have lots of these on hand as the chips are 17 months old, but no one has them and no one seems to be buying them the few that exist.

Contrast this with NV's last two $1000 chip launches: Lots of vendors had the cards, product going in and out of stock daily, lots of people on the forums posting about their new cards.

AMD could learn something about timing from this. If they put out a quad 7970 card next year as their high end, people will give it the same reception.

Don't know if they were duped by TSMC on 20nm process availability, but two whole years without new high end parts is disastrous for them. About the only way they'll be selling 7970s at any decent price is if they throw in a FX8350.
LoL... Nvidia just admitted that GTX690 had a very poor showing sales-wise.

Quote Originally Posted by Olivon View Post
Do you really think AMD got 50-60% better with a 28nm thing ?
Next round is 28nm again, no ?
Quite possible, yes.
Not necessarily.