Posts Tagged radeon

Nvidia and ATi Readying DX11 Ready Cards

According to Digitimes, the two major GPU makes are already readying the next generation cards that’ll be capable of DirectX 11. The said cards will be available by the end of the year.

Nvidia’s GT300 series cards will be done by end of this month and will be ready for shipping by December of this year.

With the ATi’s 5800 series will also be done by around the same time Nvidia’s GT300 series, but they’ll start shipping 2 months earlier which is around October. A little too fast. As usual trying to catch up to beat the competition.

This’ll pretty much mean that price drops are coming. Upgrades are coming. Time to save up. LOL. I ain’t upgrading my GTX295 anytime soon. I’m still saving up for an i7.

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RV870 Delayed to November

AMD RV870 (Evergreen) was said to hit retail in October, but the latest information indicates the launch will be delayed to November.

As you may expect, TSMC’s 40nm yield issue is the root cause of the delay, according to ati-forum.de. Though we’re inclined to believe TSMC has actually improved the yield rate, but not enough to fix the problem thoroughly.

If TSMC 40nm processing continues to be a problem, even if AMD manages to launch RV870 in October, it’s very likely to be nothing more than a paper-launch

Source: Expreview

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