NVIDIA promises to ship Kepler this year

[OCGuy]

Q4 '11/Q1 '12 sounds fine to me. It isnt like if AMD hits shelves 4 weeks earlier it will mean much this time around.....nobody is dying to get DX11 hardware to play that AAA title Dirt 2. And nV already took back the lost marketshare when AMD was ahead of them with DX11 by 6 months.

I think we should all be happy that the talk of the next gen is starting to ramp up. I think one thing that can bring this sub-forum together is that we are really sick and tired of the 40nm node, and want some new sh....stuff!

 

[notty22]

Q4 '11/Q1 '12 sounds fine to me. It isnt like if AMD hits shelves 4 weeks earlier it will mean much this time around.....nobody is dying to get DX11 hardware to play that AAA title Dirt 2. And nV already took back the lost marketshare when AMD was ahead of them with DX11 by 6 months.

I think we should all be happy that the talk of the next gen is starting to ramp up. I think one thing that can bring this sub-forum together is that we are really sick and tired of the 40nm node, and want some new sh....stuff!

Meanwhile we are getting plenty of custom models, the 6870x2 , similar to the 4602win models floating around. Just saw this model, Zotac ,should show up at newegg eventually. Looks like single slot height. Wonder if anyone would run 2 of these in SLI, those rads on the roof of their case, and a H70 out the rear 120 fan. Have all of them on exhaust, with 2 front fans bringing intake air.

edited: deleted big image.

 

[waffleironhead]

Q4 '11/Q1 '12 sounds fine to me. It isnt like if AMD hits shelves 4 weeks earlier it will mean much this time around.....nobody is dying to get DX11 hardware to play that AAA title Dirt 2. And nV already took back the lost marketshare when AMD was ahead of them with DX11 by 6 months.

I think we should all be happy that the talk of the next gen is starting to ramp up. I think one thing that can bring this sub-forum together is that we are really sick and tired of the 40nm node, and want some new sh....stuff!

I would almost hope amd beats NV to the punch and gains a bunch of market share back. This would force nvidia to do what they do best. Another round of flooding the market with cheap 460 type cards to regain that share and drive down prices for everyone. :thumbsup:

 

[notty22]

TH is repeating the same messages we have been hearing, with a little editorial comment.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-kepler-fermi-update,13188.html#xtor=999

Nvidia will release its next-generation graphics cards later than expected.

ZoomKen Brown, a spokesman for Nvidia, told X-bit Labs that Kepler silicon will be available this year, but now it seems production of graphic cards will not happen until 2012. So far, we have been under the impression that Kepler cards could be arriving just in time for Christmas, even if Nvidia already had said at the International Supercomputing Conference in June that the new cards may be delayed by a month or two.
Kepler will be succeeding the Fermi architecture and use a 28 nm production process. There have been rumors that Nvidia is struggling with the 28 nm production and that manufacturing is causing the delay. Of course, Nvidia isn't commenting on the delay and no chip manufacturer would ever give a statement on yield issues anyway. However, Nvidia is under pressure of getting Kepler out on time and especially get to Kepler right. (The current Fermi architecture was delayed several times and had a less than perfect launch.)
According to information released by Nvidia so far, Kepler cards will triple the dual-precision floating point performance of Fermi and hit up to 6 dp GFlops, while its successor Maxwell (scheduled for a 2013 release) is expected to with almost 16 dp GFlops. These are big promises and Nvidia wouldn't want to miss them.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I just did a quick search around the internet and I made a thread about this a few days ago. Something is going on here, I don't see many 6970's for sale and if they do have them , they have a few left in stock or they say shipping in 5 to 7 days. Tiger direct had 5 or 6 model a few days ago, now they have 1.

Bitcoins sales are not enough to do this.
Mabe just a temporary shortage?

When was the last time a previous generation card could be used to make money off of number crunching?

I don't know how many people are buying em because of bitcoins, but I've seen quite a few individuals who have a lot of Radeons just for mining, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were the case.

maybe they learned to stop making so many cards before they launch a new series so the old gen doesnt cannibalize sales of the new gen.

or the 6xxx series sold better than the 5xxx series.

and im sure bitcoiners had something to do with it.

just a thought

GPUs aren't the only 40nm product being manufactured by AMD at TSMC.

Don't forget Ontario/Zacate APUs.

Additionally, Ontario/Zacate and Llano eat some of AMD own mobile discrete market share.

 

[GaiaHunter]

How on earth did AMD find a way to lose $7m selling their in-high-demand video cards That's just bizarre.

Ontario/Zacate taking precedence in wafer attribution and eating the low end market alongside Llano.

Also not that hard to imagine APU profits going straight into AMD CPU division for financial reports.

 

[3DVagabond]

How on earth did AMD find a way to lose $7m selling their in-high-demand video cards That's just bizarre.

Creative accounting?