Wednesday, February 21st 2007
ATI R600 will NOT launch this quarter!
I just got off the phone with ATI who informed me that the Editor's Day which was scheduled around March 11 (flights and hotels were already booked) has been postponed to the second quarter of 2007.
The reason is that their R600 Series is not where they want it to be yet, so they decided to move the launch to be able to deliver a competitive product. Also I am hearing that at the Q2 launch we will see more than just GPU related stuff, so I would guess Physics or GPGPU computing.
"To better align our strategy with current market opportunities, we've changed the launch plan for R600. We are going to deliver a competitive configuration to market with an extremely attractive combination of performance, features and pricing, targeting a broader market segment in Q2. With the revised strategy, AMD will be better able to capitalize on the broad appeal of 3D graphics and DirectX 10, being driven in part by the growing popularity of Windows Vista ."
"This was a tough decision to make for us, but a necessary one that will ultimately result in bringing a better product to market."
Looks like CeBIT won't be so interesting at all.
The reason is that their R600 Series is not where they want it to be yet, so they decided to move the launch to be able to deliver a competitive product. Also I am hearing that at the Q2 launch we will see more than just GPU related stuff, so I would guess Physics or GPGPU computing.
"To better align our strategy with current market opportunities, we've changed the launch plan for R600. We are going to deliver a competitive configuration to market with an extremely attractive combination of performance, features and pricing, targeting a broader market segment in Q2. With the revised strategy, AMD will be better able to capitalize on the broad appeal of 3D graphics and DirectX 10, being driven in part by the growing popularity of Windows Vista ."
"This was a tough decision to make for us, but a necessary one that will ultimately result in bringing a better product to market."
Looks like CeBIT won't be so interesting at all.
42 Comments on ATI R600 will NOT launch this quarter!
and on the news:
that sucks. we need competition for pricing, although nvidia is faux competing with themselves by introducing the 320 variant of the gts, but when crysis hits in june, the R600 better be out. If i was at all in a position of power with daamit, i would be on the phone non stop with crysis leaders to get them to bundle crysis with the R600. that'd be ill, and it would make people buy em together (like the 9800xt(?) w/ HL2). With both releases probably in June, it would be the most logical move, and hopefully drive away some of nVidias burst market share that they already have, and help equilibrate the competition. wait, this is my idea. as of here, ABOVE PARAGRAPH is ^(R) (that means trademarked, superscript that R in brackets). but seriously, anything else would be dumb.
damn delays
Fuck ATI, this is too much.
I really wonder if this strategy is good.
On this, I can see it as both good and bad. By the time the R600 is out, nVidia will have their drivers, and most of the rest of their line up out. People are impatient, or have more money then they know what to do with at a certain point in time, myself as an example two months ago.
At the sametime, other then the few games, company of heroes, have DX10 patches, the DX10 games will just start coming out. Not to mention giving them more time to get things rolling on making it right and killing nVidia. Remember though don't get your hopes too high. This might as welll just be because they themselves are having problems. Maybe the R600 doesn't compete at all. Maybe it doesn't work, maybe it draws to much power gets overheated and blows up.
You have to take it in with the good and the bad. Personally, I would rather they release SOMETHING, in Q1.
nvidia rushed out the FX line and look where that lead?
nvidia rushed out the 8800/g80 and look what we have, over 6months and still no truely good drivers, to me this is sad when they put out beta hardware and beta drivers that are ment for a beta os(vista even now is really beta quility) and people lap it up because its "dx10 rated" i would hate to think what those people will do if it turns out that like the fx line the g80 cant do dx10 properly/well.
ati/amd have gotten alot of complaints about that new cooler everybodys seen pix of, this may very well be part of the reasiont he cards been delayed, to give them time to come up with something diffrent that dosnt looks so massive/oversized.
we wont see new versions of the chips by then it takes many months to draw those pretty pix on those shiny wafers, as such anything we see in q2 will be stuff thats already being made now, just diffrent packeging/cooling possably.
i will take a MATURE and READY product with DECENT/GOOD/GREAT drivers later over a beta product with beta drivers any day.
my 10c worth:
The Negative view of R600
1. We dont yet know how good, or bad, R600 is so nobody knows if its going to blow the G80 away yet. Also the 75W higher power consumption doesnt make good reading. The drivers might blow on launch.
2. We also dont know what Nvidia has up its sleave, G90 could well be on the market at that time but if not certainly a good chance of G80 GX2 card which I think would blow R600 away.
The positive view of R600
1. G80 runs like crap as it cant support Vista well, afterall Vista is the latest OS so Nvidia suck. Therefore by waiting ATI are much better because at least there product will be fully compatible.
2. Although nobody likes to wait, it could be a good thing as R600 will blow G80 away, Nvidia wont have another offering to compete with it and the prices will be much more competitive.
Take your pic, personally im waiting untill the release to make comment on which is better. And tbh it should be MUCH better if its released to the market 8 months after G80.
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It seems like more of the same smoke and mirrors..."R600 Fiasco".
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