Nvidia: DirectX 11 Will Not Catalyze Sales of Graphics Cards

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: nyker96
NV keeps playing the same game, if they can't get something done then just keep saying that thing is not too useful like DX10.1 now DX11. news has it they got their sample back from lab, yield of their dx11 parts are like 2%, that's too low and it's like 400mm2 in size, a monster of a chip. so most sites are predicting early next year launch of their dx11 parts if tsmc can work out yield issue with them. so now they are behind in the dx11 race, they are claiming dx11 is useless. this all points to another delay in their production again on dx11 parts. whatever, if they can't get dx11 parts out before xmas, we can always get it off ati. hopefully they won't be late.

DX10.1 wasn't too useful. It's hard to find fault in them when they ended up right. It's yet to be seen how important dx11 will be, but there's nothing concretely saying it's going to be critical.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: nyker96
NV keeps playing the same game, if they can't get something done then just keep saying that thing is not too useful like DX10.1 now DX11. news has it they got their sample back from lab, yield of their dx11 parts are like 2%, that's too low and it's like 400mm2 in size, a monster of a chip. so most sites are predicting early next year launch of their dx11 parts if tsmc can work out yield issue with them. so now they are behind in the dx11 race, they are claiming dx11 is useless. this all points to another delay in their production again on dx11 parts. whatever, if they can't get dx11 parts out before xmas, we can always get it off ati. hopefully they won't be late.

The "news" you are speaking of is a Charlie rant. Kind of hard to base an entire opinion off of that.

 

[heyheybooboo]

For the most part I could care less about ATI/nVidia, but ...

nVidia is just blowing smoke up the financial analysts' rear ends.

What can they say? "Uhhh. Our Flagship GT300 is late to the Party and the Radeon HD 58XXs will pillage our top end. If a series of DX11 games come out for the holiday season we're screwed."

"Oh. And our 40nm yields suck."



Of course they are going to pump what they can and minimize any short-comings.

 

[taltamir]

nvidia makes two statements:
1. DX11 will not catalyze sales... this is true.
2. CUDA will catalyze sales... this is false.

bottom line though, it is just some marketing and we can safely ignore it.