Poor Yields Push Fermi Successor to Q1 2012
Poor Yields Push Fermi Successor to Q1 2012
Posted 07/04/2011 at 10:59am
| by Paul Lilly
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Remember all the hoopla leading up to Nvidia's Fermi launch? We were teased with leaked photos, benchmarks, and several delays due to reported defects. Nvidia eventually ironed out whatever bugs it needed to in order to get Fermi to market in the form of a GTX 480, a fast videocard with a group of stream processors disabled. It also ran hot and a little bit loud, ultimately leading us to declare the the GTX 580 "the real Fermi" (see our review here). We're expecting a much smoother rollout to Fermi's successor, though it appears delays are still part of the game.
According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, Nvidia's 28nm Kepler part and successor to Fermi likely won't launch until the first quarter of 2012. Fudzilla's sources say there's still a chance Kepler could arrive by the end of this year, but given the current maturity of the 28nm process, a Q1 2012 launch is much more likely.
Nvidia isn't the only one affected by poor yields. AMD faces the same dilemma, though according to Fudzilla, the chip maker is still on schedule to launch 28nm GPUs in 2011, they just won't be available in mass quantities.
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JohnP
July 04, 2011 at 8:17pm
Unless I get a bigger monitor, a 580 will it for me. With a sandy bridge and a 580, I can push enough out to a1920 by 1080 monitor to make pretty much anything I throw at it work... NVidia is going to have to come up with something special to make me want to upgrade.
praetor_alpha
July 04, 2011 at 8:07pm
I still have a GTX 285. Until something dramatically faster happens on a card less than 10 inches, I'm still happy. And I really don't care about Directx 11, as most games don't use it, and nearly as many dont even use DX 10!
Marthian
July 04, 2011 at 10:58pm
pretty sure that already happened. The GTX 460/560 are shorter than 10inches, support DX11, and is faster than the gtx 285. I believe cooler as well.
afatgoat
July 04, 2011 at 6:10pm
I watercooled 2x470's, as it was similar to playing next to the oven cranked to broil. No complaints with them now though, minus the fact developers need to get off the dx9 train and start maximizing dx11.
chart2006
July 04, 2011 at 1:52pm
"won't launch until the first quarter of 2011" So Kepler should have been here already huh? lol
rjohnson11
July 04, 2011 at 12:52pm
NVIDIA has stated that they will send engineers to TSMC if needed if there are any delays so I would rather they take their time and get the yields correct. The current batch of GPUs are more than enough for gaming and physics so no one needs to rush.
Baer
July 04, 2011 at 12:47pm
I love my 580's as for the next generation, I want them to get it right not get it fast. No more 400 series please.
Marthian
July 04, 2011 at 11:00pm
I think we can all agree really the only successful card out of the 400 series is the gtx 460.
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