NVIDIA GF100 Fermi Cards Will Slowly Be Coming Out Next Month
Second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470-based (Fermi) graphics cards until sometime in April despite that Nvidia plans to announce the GPU on March 26 at PAX East. Rumor has it that most of the board partners have not received complete reference board designs, according to sources from graphics card makers. Some market watchers originally expected AMD to drop its graphics card price to counter the launch of Nvidia’s new cards, but since the prices of Nvidia cards are higher than AMD’s existing cards, watchers now believe any price war between the two chip makers is unlikely to start until after May.
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.
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