When will GTX 680s be out again?

[nine9s]

I was at a trade showtoday. Gigabyte guy said Nvidia is holding back 680s because so many 580s still out. PNY guy said he is hearing early June for next batch. I am reading rumors that the yield is very bad on 680s.

Anyone know what the story is? And when we can expect retail channels to get them again?

 

[blastingcap]

They are trickling in; just have to be there at the right time each day. I hear that newegg stocks twice a day and the first stock time is in the morning like 8am PST or something. Someone else could probably confirm.

 

[Don Karnage]

If they want to get rid of the 580's drop the price on them. They need to be under 300 dollars. No one is dumb enough to buy a 580 over Amd's 78xx series

 

[thilanliyan]

How is yield bad on a somewhat small die?

 

[KompuKare]

Hm, how about Charlie's SA story about a TSMC 28nm stoppage was true and Nvidia decided to be clever: they had say X thousand (X being not enough) before the 28nm stoppage, trickled a small number for the 680 launch and meantime have been trickling a few hundred there and there so as to make people think if they wait a bit more they can get one and meantime they spoil AMDs 7970 sales.

Yields? Who knows maybe there are good because it's a smaller part and Ferni should have convinced Nvidia to hire some process savvy engineers. But they are hardly likely to be perfect so that begs the question where are the die harvestees?

The should have lots of dies to make 670s maybe even as low as 660s; maybe the ones which don't make the cut for 680 are failing in ways which makes them unharvestable.

 

[blackened23]

My suggestion is to make an automated script to check for stock, very little stock trickles in to various etailers every day however if you are on top of it and have a day off work you can probably get one.

 

[3DVagabond]

How is yield bad on a somewhat small die?

Even the 460 had to have parts deactivated when it was first released. The HD 4770 wasn't a big chip, but yields were bad early on in the 40nm process. AMD seems to have learned from that and has gotten better as time has gone on. nVidia? Apparently not.

 

[ShintaiDK]

You can buy a GTX 680 basicly anywhere within 2-5 days.

I dont see all the fuss about it. Sure they sell out like hotcakes when in stock. But if you can wait those 2-5days you can more or less get one anywhere.

http://geizhals.at also shows quite abit in stock around in european stores.

 

[3DVagabond]

You can buy a GTX 680 basicly anywhere within 2-5 days.

I dont see all the fuss about it. Sure they sell out like hotcakes when in stock. But if you can wait those 2-5days you can more or less get one anywhere.

http://geizhals.at also shows quite abit in stock around in european stores.

Sorry, but when supply is this limited in the largest market on the planet (North America, it's not just the States) there is a problem. It's nice that you can buy one in Europe. I can buy one in New Zealand too. That's not the OP's point though, is it?

 

[AdamK47]

There's one at my local Micro Center for the low low price of $600.

 

[Don Karnage]

My suggestion is to make an automated script to check for stock, very little stock trickles in to various etailers every day however if you are on top of it and have a day off work you can probably get one.

How does one make a script? help me obi wan kenobi... you're my only hope