Posted on Thursday, February 25 2010 @ 11:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes
heard second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start shipping large volumes of NVIDIA Fermi based graphics cards until April.
Second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470-based (Fermi) graphics cards until April despite that Nvidia plans to announce the GPU on March 26 since most of the them have not yet received complete reference board designs, according to sources from graphics card makers.
The sources expect Nvidia will give supply priority to first-tier makers or makers that only produce Nvidia cards. Makers including XFX and PNY are already offering pre-orders for these upcoming cards with GTX 480 priced at around US$679.99 and GTX 470 at about US$499.99.
