NVIDIA's GTX 400 Series Gets A Launch Date: March 26th
by Ryan Smith on February 22, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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On the heels of a rather unusual (and poorly received) announcement this morning that they'd be showing off the GTX 400 series at PAX East this year, NVIDIA has made a second and much more to-the-point announcement today.
And at this point that's all we know. Specifications, performance, pricing, launch quantities, etc remain to be seen. Perhaps more interesting is that this is on a Friday. We can't immediately recall a Friday GPU launch, even for a refresh part. Like everything else, the whether this has any significance remains to be seen.
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tterremmotto - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - link
How can one be 80% right in regards to predictions about a product which is not shipping?Galid - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
By learning about TSMC's 40nm and tech about GPUs, Ok the guy's on the side of ATI because he can't say anything bad about them. But he's got some info on tsmc's and engineering that are pretty good. He's just not digging about bad rumors turning around ATI.Read what he said a while ago about fermi and do some research about what's happening NOW and you'll find the similarities.
CptTripps - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Right, so the $500 card is on par with a 5870 but they are charging an extra $150 to be 5% faster than a 5870. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and I highly doubt it's true.Aside from that, what games were benched for that 5% difference? Were any games that use DX11 tested with tesselation?
I'm still on the fence on what to purchase and have a tough time swallowing rumors.
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
It makes no sense? If this chipzilla does indeed have such horrible yield rates (and common sense points to 'yes'), its not a surprise nvidia will have to charge alot more for it than they had hoped to, should it be the expected performance disappointment. They simply hope to pull off an Apple, where the loyal fanboys storm in and buy whatever little supply there will be at whatever high price they're selling it.Face it fanboys, either way, thermi will not be what you wanted it to be.
Griswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
It makes no sense? If this chipzilla does indeed have such horrible yield rates (and common sense points to 'yes'), its not a surprise nvidia will have to charge alot more for it than they had hoped to, should it be the expected performance disappointment. They simply hope to pull off an Apple, where the loyal fanboys storm in and buy whatever little supply there will be at whatever high price they're selling it.Face it fanboys, either way, thermi will not be what you wanted it to be.
silverblue - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
I see what you did there.yacoub - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
Sounds like NVidia is gambling on how much extra people will pay to get a card with a stable set of drivers after all the headaches the 5000 series ATI cards have been causing. =PGriswold - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - link
You mean, how many people will pay the extra dough for a thermonuclear furnace.formulav8 - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
I've heard of a gray screen and mouse cursor problem but nothing death defying??Am I just overlooking a major problem out there for the ATI drivers?
Jason
Iketh - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - link
It's only for win7+5xxx series users. The big mouse cursor is "almost" taken care of. It very rarely pops up anymore (about once every 2 days), but when it does, you're on a countdown for your system crashing. Rebooting is the only way out.Oh and the grey screen? I'm forced to dual-boot winxp just to work with video captured with fraps.