HD2900XT out May 2nd ?

Vogon · 26 Apr 2007 at 21:19

I hope its true, but I doubt it somehow .. apparantly the NDA expires then too according to: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4931

esiemi · 26 Apr 2007 at 21:23

hope so, lets see what happens.

Sh4rkie · 26 Apr 2007 at 21:25

That would be good news as we could see once and for all how the cards perform

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Tom|Nbk · 26 Apr 2007 at 21:35

I did hear from a source earlier this could be possible looks like ATi may have just announced it.

Azza · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:31

Looks like just a soft launch.

Tom|Nbk · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:42

Not sure what to make of it, the way the articles wrote you can't tell if the card comes out it self on the 2nd or what :confused:

need more clarification.

, tbh the whole thing is boring the hell out of me now, this could be the most overrated card in history no doubt.

Noxis · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:45

Would explain Gibbos sudden effort to shift his 8800 stock.

Tom|Nbk · 26 Apr 2007 at 22:48

Could be but the fact the dollar is weak atm is more likely, surprised there hasnt been more clarification at this point if the card does arrived on the 2nd.

drak3 · 26 Apr 2007 at 23:46

Is not official yet, since ATI still has 1950s on their site as the flagship. No official words towards the investors either. No press release. Nothing.

Vogon · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:14

Well I guess we only have to wait until next Wednesday to see, even if its only the NDA is lifted ..... that would be a help

Sudden effort to shift 8800 stock ? lol at still over £350 for the cheapest its not a big effort IMO

Cyber-Mav · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:17

AMD has decided to push forward the launch of the Radeon HD 2900 series to May 2nd instead of the original date on May 14th.

then they say:

However, AMD is still keeping Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 under wraps until the big day on May 14th.

look like they gonna launch half the cards now then half of them later.

Tom|Nbk · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:19

bloody good news i say then, means I wont be stuck with this X550 for so long and I can pick up one of these mid week.

neo202020 · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:39

The way I read it they're doing a soft launch on the 2nd of May but the card is actually going to be available from the 14th onwards only...

Cyber-Mav · 27 Apr 2007 at 01:57

neo202020 said:
The way I read it they're doing a soft launch on the 2nd of May but the card is actually going to be available from the 14th onwards only...

dunno how your reading skills are but as i posted above it looks like the 2900 they release may 2nd and the 2600 and 2400 they hang on to till the 14th.

but who knows they could end up doing nothing on the 2nd and just pump out the cards on the 14th.

fornowagain · 27 Apr 2007 at 02:25

It badly written, but the way I read it. It says the 2nd is a soft launch i.e no hardware. Then it gives the 14th blah blah. It says after this date, 14th, the 2900XT will be available.

Retailers would have a stock arriving now if it launched on the 2nd?

drunkenmaster · 27 Apr 2007 at 03:58

the specifically only say reviews and info on the 2nd and soft launch. i think its purely so review sites/ magazines and so forth can officially have the 2900xt info up on its own. ati , when the top end card is launched want everyone talking about that, not the 2400xt's, not straight away anyhow.

also the 2600/2400 are the kinds of cards they sell in mass, huge volume to prebuilders, the end user sales while much higher than top end sales still amount to nothing compared to the number of cards shipping in complete systems. while i would say the limited sales of top end cards would have a much wider distribution and more end users would use them, in other words, reviews mean more for the top end cards where as the lower end cards simply sell to OEM's based on cost and not really anything else.

my point would be that they want the reviews to hit magazines as early as possible, i would think the slightly earlier official NDA stop would be so magazine guys can get final layouts sorted and magazines printed to go in this months editions of various mags around the world.

EDIT:- then of course you have to think about the other side, its vr-zone, who were saying you would only get a 12.5" version of the top end card, that failed to mention their pics were taken from other sites where the pics clearly stated they were pre production samples and not final product etc, etc. VR-ZONE, wrong about almost everything, late with all real news thats accurate, rumour mill, editing(language editing) clearly almost as bad as the INQ's.

chaparral · 27 Apr 2007 at 07:31

Noxis said:
Would explain Gibbos sudden effort to shift his 8800 stock.

If you look around at the other threads on here,you see that gibbo is trying to shift just about everything in the last few days,CPU,memory,hardrives etc

Jokester · 27 Apr 2007 at 07:37

Azza said:
Looks like just a soft launch.

AMD don't do soft launches. There's no reason to either, there's supposed to have thousands of the cards already available.

Jokester

Dead Dog · 27 Apr 2007 at 08:40

Azza said:
Looks like just a soft launch.

ahh that old chestnut

surely if it was even quite soon ie say the 14th, i would have thought they'd have been on pre-order by now?

Sh4rkie · 27 Apr 2007 at 11:13

And so it continues:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39223

Inq said:
Get an R600 date with Daamit

Promises to take you out, stands you up

By Wily Ferret: Friday 27 April 2007, 10:30

AS THE OFFICIAL unveiling of R600 gets ever closer, more and more concrete dates are starting to appear. And disappear. And move.

The latest news is that while DAAMIT was hoping for a top-to-bottom public launch of its R600 range - from the Radeon HD 2400, through the HD 2600, up to the HD 2900 XTX - that is now not going to happen.

The launch of the Radeon HD 2900 series is now being pulled up to May 2, instead of the previous May 14 date. On that May 14 date, the 2600 and 2400 will appear. However, both of these are soft launches. Whilst the 2900 will appear on the 2nd, it won't be available to buy until the 14th. Whilst the 2600 and 2400 will be unveiled on the 14th, neither of those cards will be widely available until the middle of June at the earliest.

Depending on who you believe, the limited retail availability is either down to big customer orders (from Dell, natch, and HP) or poor manufacturing.

Lastly, don't expect to see the Radeon HD 2900 XTX at all this month. That card, which has 1GB of DDR4 memory, has performed so poorly in initial performance previews that it may well be pushed back indefinitely, whilst the kinks with DDR4 are worked out.

Reports have been appearing all over the web to talk about availability and initial sampling, including at VR-Zone, the inimitable Dailytech and our old pal Fudzilla. Look for the PR wave of benchmarks to hit for the 2900 XT next week. µ