Fermi to be in short supply

[Broken Hope]

Nvidia partners have ordered Fermi cards even before they ended up with Geforce GTX 480 and Geforce GTX 470 brands and this is just the beginning of the story. Back in October Nvidia has created a huge hype for its 512 shader compute chip and people were ordering these cards like there was no tomorrow.


We talked with quite a few Nvidia partners and it looks like most of them simply won't get enough Fermi cards. Distributors and etail / retail stores have already ordered far more cards that partners can provide.

At launch, Nvidia has much less cards that partners can sell but this might end up to be the case for a few partners, only. Unfortunately, while it's possible that some might end up with enough cards, we highly doubt it.

Note that Fermi cards should show up in etail / retail stores on April 12th, as this date has been confirmed by Nvidia as well as few partners. Our advice to anyone who's after Fermi cards is that you better be ready to buy one as soon as you see it listed.

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[RavenXXX2]

Probably one of the reasons XFX have pulled out of making the 400 cards, there is not enough to go around, no surprises considering the problems ATI have had with TSM with a decent process, Nvidias must be a nightmare for them to make any decent quantities.

 

[D.P.]

XFX have not pulled out, Nvidia aren't giving them any chips. No GFX board manufacturer in their right mind would choose not to sell GF100 based cards. These manufacturers are all locked in complex contracts and deals with ATI and Nvidia.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Hardy complex when XFX can one day decide to sell ATI cards, they are probably making a killing with the 5000 cards and realize a loss is in the making with the 400 cards, they now know which side their bread is buttered .

 

[londonbairn]

Charlie was right, funny how certain doubters are quiet now

 

[Participant]

Raven - do you have a link to the original picture in your sig, the one with "Noob" written in it? Been looking for it for ages!

Thanks in advance.

 

[drunkenmaster]

XFX have not pulled out, Nvidia aren't giving them any chips. No GFX board manufacturer in their right mind would choose not to sell GF100 based cards. These manufacturers are all locked in complex contracts and deals with ATI and Nvidia.

You do realise partners were selling 260GTX's for zero profit last year, when NVidia doesn't make profit, partners don't make profit. Nvidia will be taking a HUGE loss on these cards, you can bet your ass partners aren't making more than a handful of dollars at the most on these.

The reason not to sell them, you put your name on a card that no one can buy over the maybe 6-8 month period they are supposed to be on sale, frankly it will hurt your reputation. Or they can choose to make the single fastest graphics card around in an overclocked 5970x2, and be able to sell more of them than they would ever get 480gtx's, which is massively slower.

Why would you want to make a handful of cards, for no profit, and have you cards listed as out of stock worldwide for 8 months?

Wouldn't you want to be thought of as the company smart enough to ignore a pointless card that massively overpriced and be the company smart enough to jump to the best cards around, that are also available?

 

[drunkenmaster]

XFX have not pulled out, Nvidia aren't giving them any chips. No GFX board manufacturer in their right mind would choose not to sell GF100 based cards. These manufacturers are all locked in complex contracts and deals with ATI and Nvidia.

You do realise partners were selling 260GTX's for zero profit last year, when NVidia doesn't make profit, partners don't make profit. Nvidia will be taking a HUGE loss on these cards, you can bet your ass partners aren't making more than a handful of dollars at the most on these.

The reason not to sell them, you put your name on a card that no one can buy over the maybe 6-8 month period they are supposed to be on sale, frankly it will hurt your reputation. Or they can choose to make the single fastest graphics card around in an overclocked 5970x2, and be able to sell more of them than they would ever get 480gtx's, which is massively slower.

Why would you want to make a handful of cards, for no profit, and have you cards listed as out of stock worldwide for 8 months?

Wouldn't you want to be thought of as the company smart enough to ignore a pointless card that massively overpriced and be the company smart enough to jump to the best cards around, that are also available?

For the record, Nvidia most certainly won't be giving them priority, the same way Nvidia, Intel and AMD tend to give priority to companies for every launch, IE first tier mobo makers all got the first shipments of the SB750 southbridges and other mobo's with it came a lot later. Same with the SB850, Gigabyte and Asus are leading the pack by well, months basically with others to follow.

XFX could get chips eventually, assuming Nvidia plans on it being in production for more than an initial run which is questionable. Nvidia doesn't ignore sales, while it has very limited stock tier 1 and prefered customers would get them without a problem. They'll happily sell XFX anything they have in stock, it looks better for XFX to say they don't want to make them, than wait 2 months extra for a handful of cards they can't sell at a profit. Its definately their decision to never make one though.

If EVGA went to AMD and asked for chips to make a 5970, AMD would say certainly, without doubt, you're welcome to give us money, but you'll be last on the list to get stock when its available. No one turns down orders.