AMD to launch Volcanic Islands GPU (HD8000s) in 2013

[LordEC911]

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.

Do you really think AMD got 50-60% better with a 28nm thing ?
Next round is 28nm again, no ?

Quite possible, yes.
Not necessarily.

[zalbard]

LoL... Nvidia just admitted that GTX690 had a very poor showing sales-wise.

Nowhere they said GTX 690 sold poorly. Titan just sold much better than they expected.

You seem to be coming with your opinions as facts a lot recently. You should cut the BS. It's getting old.

Nvidia's dual-GPU behemoth, the GeForce GTX 690, has been out in the wild for over a year now, but the equally freakishly expensive GTX Titan has outsold it in less than three months. Now either the GTX 690 sold a pifflingly small amount (quite possibly) or the GTX Titan has been better received than even Nvidia thought.

According to Nvidia, it's the latter.

[Dimitriman]

Nowhere they said GTX 690 sold poorly. Titan just sold much better than they expected...

Either way you look at it, Titan outselling the 690 seems like a clear indication that a big monolithic chip will sell better than a dual chip card in most scenarios. Excluding all other market forces at play...

[tajoh111]

Nowhere they said GTX 690 sold poorly. Titan just sold much better than they expected.

You seem to be coming with your opinions as facts a lot recently. You should cut the BS. It's getting old.

Lordecc always takes the most negative view on Nvidia. It isn't a surprise.

Gtx 690 had to sell reasonable well for Nvidia to even consider the 1000 dollar price point for the gtx titan. Also, the gtx 690 never had a price drop which typically happen after sales are bad, e.g like the whole 7xxx series after the gtx 6xx series came out(this is to just rub it in lordecc face a bit).