Soldato
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This is what I also said. The Supers were planned and ready to go, AMD just accelerated the time frame. Retailers can have a load of stock but they don't put it on the shelves until told to do so. But also remember the 2060 and 2070 Supers were announced on the 9th July but I don't recall stock actually being available to buy for a couple more weeks. 9th July was as much of a paper launch as Navi.
And let's be honest, Nvidia really can do a global launch at the drop of a hat. We've seen a few times that when they've been behind in performance they can quite literally turn around a competing product in 6 months, unless there's something fundamentally wrong (Fermi, for example).
Both Camps have basically been doing global Launches since the G70/7800GTX. Fermi was't that bad, it was a bit late and hot but was fast and very fast as you scaled up the clocks.
The Rankine architecture was broken and Nvidia's biggest fail. It was Hot, late, slow, pricey, high failure rate, features that didn't work or half work. Even thought (or due to ) being on a much newer process than what ATI was on at the time. As a result a lot was changed for Curie on the same node and it worked nicely.