When are the next gen video cards due out?

[imported_DocHolliday]

feels like it's been awhile since the last release... or am I just out of touch w/ reality?

 

[Amplifier]

The release date varies from June until this fall. I'm just as bored as you probably are with the wait.

 

[Regs]

Mid-Late fall is my guess. But you will likely won't see them in quanity until winter.

 

[Amplifier]

That's why I wish we still had five GPU companies 🙁.

 

[rgreen83]

Heres to hoping the R520 is a new design, it feels like all we have had out of ATI is suped-up 9700 pros for the last four years. I love my 9800xt but am really looking for something more cutting edge and I would like to stay with ATI if possible.

 

[trinibwoy]

Originally posted by: Amplifier
That's why I wish we still had five GPU companies 🙁.

Are you crazy man. Then there'd be five camps of fanboys and 20 different ways to start a flamefest!! :frown:

 

[imported_Kensai]

Haha. There already are 20 ways to start a flamefest.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: rgreen83
Heres to hoping the R520 is a new design, it feels like all we have had out of ATI is suped-up 9700 pros for the last four years. I love my 9800xt but am really looking for something more cutting edge and I would like to stay with ATI if possible.

i suspect they know they'll have to make a complete shift for the next gen or risk loosing significant market share to nvidia.

Here's to hoping that too :beer:

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: trinibwoy

Originally posted by: Amplifier
That's why I wish we still had five GPU companies 🙁.

Are you crazy man. Then there'd be five camps of fanboys and 20 different ways to start a flamefest!! :frown:

thats a trivial bad compared to the benefit to us as consumers that competition would bring 😉

Perhaps not 5, but three (maybe four, but three sounds best, then they could all be big enuff for serious R&D) would be good, then they wouldn't dare paper launch or at least one competitor would go for the throat and nick marketshare off the offender.