Thursday, May 31st 2012
GeForce GTX 680 A Sellout Success: NVIDIA
NVIDIA's flagship single-GPU graphics card, the GeForce GTX 680, achieved performance leadership over AMD's Radeon HD 7970, and forced a price-cut, however, a section of the community feels that availability is an issue with it. According to NVIDIA, availability is attributed to sales, and not lack of volumes. At an annual investors' meeting with the company's top-brass, NVIDIA released a slide which depicts GeForce GTX 680 as having 60% higher sales than GeForce GTX 580, six weeks following their respective launches.
There is one cosmetic inaccuracy in the graph, though. GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 580 are labeled "GT". One inference that can be drawn out of the graph is that NVIDIA is seeing some success in putting the 28 nm silicon fabrication process to use, despite the GTX 680 being one of the first chips built on it. In comparison, the GTX 580 arrived when the 40 nm process achieved a higher level of maturity. There seems to be a genuinely high demand for the GTX 680.
Source:
PC Perspective
There is one cosmetic inaccuracy in the graph, though. GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 580 are labeled "GT". One inference that can be drawn out of the graph is that NVIDIA is seeing some success in putting the 28 nm silicon fabrication process to use, despite the GTX 680 being one of the first chips built on it. In comparison, the GTX 580 arrived when the 40 nm process achieved a higher level of maturity. There seems to be a genuinely high demand for the GTX 680.
65 Comments on GeForce GTX 680 A Sellout Success: NVIDIA
As for 500 series gtx570 is almost discontinued and it didn't even go below 350
I remember getting a gtx460 twin crozr 1gb edition for 145$ which I still have right now, we never saw such prices with 500 series, which is better for NVIDIA but worse for us, and if it was t for gtx480 being priced under 400$ then hd6970 would've been priced way over the 350$ it was going for. This gens pricing is ridiculous
Tho NVIDIA sure is doing better than amd from that aspect, i wonder when hd7870 will be 220$ or so cuz that's were it belongs
From a UK perspective they've ditched the 680 now and are focussing more on 670. In most online places, the 670 is far more readily available in stock.
Also, I've seen the 7970 prices creep back up in some places. That would tend to suggest demand for the 7970 is rising.
Meh, it's Nvidia investor focused marketing blurb. Pile of shite tbh.
Roll on 2013.
Also remember that the GTX 5xx never really sold out like the GTX 6xx has. nVidia said that GTX 6xx yields are up over GTX 5xx yields. Just because the sales are up does not mean that yields are worlds better then what Qualcomm and AMD are seeing.
Think about it for a minute. AMD had free reign before the GTX 680 came out. Even if we assume equal sales, AMD seemed to be able to supply the market. Not to mention with a bigger GPU too.
I can say I sold out of all my product Y even it yields of it are crap. Then I can say yields are better then product X (which fixed yields of product W). So while my yields are not terrible, I can still technically say that I'm seeing record sales.
I also like how the y-axis has no label. Does the GTX6xx sell 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc better then GTX 5xx? Without a label, it is a worthless graph other then to tell you that GTX 6xx are selling more then GTX 5xx.Qualcomm and AMD have not said they can't get enough wafer starts to meet demand. Only nVidia has made this statement.How would you compare demand for the GTX 6xx cards to the AMD 79xx cards before the GTX 680 came out?
Just do a historical 3 year-to-date look up on the stock price. Let me know if you need your hand held or if you find the Nasdaq an unreliable source. ;)
Maybe I just got trolled :banghead:
Did quote the wrong year for 580. its 2010 not the 09, doh!
11/09/2010 - 12.59
12/23/2010 - 14.92
Still had a stock 2 point gain during that release as oppose to a 2 point loss currently with 680
While i'm at it..
The original Article/OP linked is not a source. They are refering to publish reports made at GTC and citing them as a back and forth conversation they had with Nvidia themselves.
05/24/12 GeForce / DT - Jeff Fisher
The official slides. Its 13 of 30. Kind of happy my spelling is on par with Nvidias.
Seams to be PC Perspective had GTC info and Investor info and was try'n to get a clarification and the Nvidia rep he got was still in Investor woo'ing mode.
here we go :slap:
Any ways glad to see Nvidia pull the socks up this round. :toast:
It's time for a switch this round! bye bye 6990 :)
Either Nvidia is having yield issues or Jen Hsun Huang has a dog that only eats 28nm silicon chips.:banghead:
thing is, nVidia sells to partners, not to users, so retail stock levels have no part of this news post. Nvidia has a tonne of chips coming, and they are all sold out...to partners. Sounds great, but AMD did the same thing, on the same process, last quarter. AMD just failed in marketing. :laugh:
BTW, Qualcomm has openly and publiclly stated that there are no issues for them on 28nm..the problem for most of TSMC's partners right now is a lack of available wafer starts.
NOTICE: sarcasm has been used again.This has a certain truth to it, because nv managed to get only a few working chips out, lower numbers means weak distribution and thus they get sold out because in this case even a little bit of demand makes and impact. Where I live out of 30, 17 are available, don't know how many they do have of each, maybe just one or two and then there are our wages which don't allow many to buy them.That might be because they gave up on some wafer starts and TSMC allotted them to apple if I remember right. Apparently dear leader wasn't happy with wafer pricing considering yield. Ouch!...
In this light how can the marketing team not use lots of images, graphs and what not? Might go well with investors.