Report: Nvidia GTX 480, 470 Availability Delayed
Buyers itching to get rid of their stack of Benjamins for a Fermi will have to hold off for a bit longer, it seems.
It's no secret that making Fermi has been a harder-than-expected task for Nvidia, but the company will officially unveil its finalized product in the GeForce GTX 480 at the end of next week on March 26.
While you can expect to see an announcement at an event at PAX East coupled with plenty of benchmarks, a story posted on Shane Baxtor's site says that retail availability will come after the announcement date.
According to Baxtor, the original retail date was supposed to be March 29 but now that's been moved to April 6.
We reached out to Nvidia for clarification, but we were told to stay tuned to the company's stage show from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. next Friday. At any rate, hopefully those boxes for Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 were filled with product and ready to greet gamers as soon as possible.
All of these delays is only hurting Nvidia's potential market.
This is kinda turning into the Duke Nukem Forever of GPUs.
Marketing 102, never release an unfinished product
Even later than it should have been.
/sarcasm
At least they're trying to avoid mistakes. Grey Screening 5xxx series card?
All of these delays is only hurting Nvidia's potential market.
This is kinda turning into the Duke Nukem Forever of GPUs.
I think I have a case of déjà vu...
Marketing 102, never release an unfinished product
We want it to be released so we can see whether or not our criticisms actually hold any water.
Marketing 103: Never promise a release date and not have it ready.
Because the product is not yet ready and NV try to maintain our patience and attention to keep waiting their product using all the delay announcement.
It's amazing many ppl still waiting Fermi like a promising prophet LOL
While actually NV are busy prepare them self to sue Intel in the court.
Finally once the product launch it cost 600$ this will not push to lower the 5xxx price, and after 2 months price will drop into 400$, consider we have to waited additional 2 months for reasonable price.
Later after 3 months Overclock version will shown with a new label GTX 490 or maybe GTX 4840 LOL
Oh the shock. The horror. The "I completely expected this"