Soldato
Interested to know! Sry if this has been discussed in another thread but is buried deep within!
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I think the mainstream cards are estimated for March 2010. I expect we will see a high end part before then.
I thought it was highend by March with the mainstream being several months behind that date?
Nvidia's mainstream market version of its GT300 / Fermi chip is scheduled for a Q1 2010 launch. This is not particularly good news for the company as ATI is already shipping its mainstream card based on the Juniper chip at pricing around €130 / $169 for the more expensive parts. Of course, we are talking about the HD 5770 and HD 5750 that both started shipping yesterday.
In perspective, Fermi will be released as a performance chip card, a high-end single chip card, and a dual-GPU card that might launch a few weeks later.
When it comes to entry level and mainstream segments, we will most likely have to wait until around March, if not even later. Despite the huge flexibility of Nvidia's Fermi GF100 architecture, it still takes time to derive slower performing chips from the original design.
We have a feeling that ATI might capture a much bigger piece of the DirectX 11 market than anyone expected due to being first to the market and shipping months before its competition. Both of these factors are very beneficial for raking in good sales numbers. While Nvidia’s mainstream cards might end up faster, they will unfortunately come a month behind the competition.
It has been pretty quiet. I'm sure they're trying to find a way to mount a surprise comeback but with yields reportedly so low I think it's more likely they'll mount an offensive based upon PhysX, 3D Vision and CUDA. Either way ATi has scored a huge victory by releasing before Win7 and by scoring a deal with Dell - if they get their 5870x2 cards out soon then it's pretty much a walk in the park for them, as they'll have enough time to work on the 5890 to coincide with Fermi.What makes me think it is a way off is I havent seen a whiff of fermi news around since the fake card debacle and that is unusual for a card that would be just around the corner
It has been pretty quiet. I'm sure they're trying to find a way to mount a surprise comeback but with yields reportedly so low I think it's more likely they'll mount an offensive based upon PhysX, 3D Vision and CUDA. Either way ATi has scored a huge victory by releasing before Win7 and by scoring a deal with Dell - if they get their 5870x2 cards out soon then it's pretty much a walk in the park for them, as they'll have enough time to work on the 5890 to coincide with Fermi.
Still, nVidia isn't one to take things lying down. I'm sure we'll see something interesting from them.