Friday, March 18th 2011
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Delayed to March 24?
Originally slated for March 22, NVIDIA has reportedly delayed the launch of its new high-end GeForce GTX 590 graphics card to March 24, sources told Expreview.com. The reason for this delay is not known, and NVIDIA isn't confirming this delay. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 is a dual-GPU high-end graphics card that uses two GF110 GPUs in an SLI on a stick solution.
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Expreview
36 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Launch Delayed to March 24?
Beside who buys these stuff on launch day these days :rolleyes:
I've learned that the best time to buy a graphic card is around 3 to 5 months after the official release, you get better versions, better coolers, bundles and drivers.
It takes more than 2 days to "get more stock in" or "tweak a bios"
or some other business specific reason since were almost at q2. very unlikely to eb ahardware issue or supply delay for a 2 day launch delay.
on a serious note... probably a logistics issue.
Shipping from China to the U.S. takes a month. This is an ultra high end card. Shipping to many regions around the globe in small volume, air is the only sensible option. I bet 10CAD that the entire stock of GTX 590 can't even fill a container right now(one 20-foot container can fit over 3000 cards in retail packaging).
I should list Japans manufacture effected by this
1,Samsung
2,Sanyo
3,Sony
4,Honda
5,Kawasaki
6,Toyota
These will effect all of asia for at least 3 months I1m guessing,If Nvidia has ties to Samsung for memory you could see at least 4 months delay on GTX590 Unless they go with the other guys that AMD use.Who here remembers the Taiwan earthquake in 98-99 when all the memory prices shot up ....
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