R600 delayed til March?

Well, it would make sense for them to take there time. ATI would want to finetune there next gen cards as much as possible so it would have a hefty advantage over what is available atm. The 8800's caught a lot of people off guard with how well it performed. ATI would have to top that already knowing by the time there cards do hit the market, announcements of midrange & refreshes of Nvidia GPUs will come out of everywhere. ATI will have to get it right this time for sure.
 
Interesting. Guess the 8series wont fall in price as fast as I thought.
 
Just because Google links to the Inquirer, and other people run the Inquirer's stories, it doesn't make them right. No release date has been announced, nobody knows when it's coming out. However, if it doesn't make it out in January, then March is probably accurate.
 
if the r600 sucks and it gets delayed that means Nvidia will be taking over for couple generations...

8800 is really tough to beat... Only time will tell.

(thoughts)
ATI always did eat up more power and needed more 12volts on rail. I wonder how much power the R600 will eat?
 
Marvelous said:
if the r600 sucks and it gets delayed that means Nvidia will be taking over for couple generations...

8800 is really tough to beat... Only time will tell.

(thoghts)
ATI always did eat up more power and needed more 12volts on rail. I wonder how much power the R600 will eat?
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This wasn't true for the X800 XT / X800 XT PE, which were marvels of engineering considering power/performance. Too bad the XT PE version was really hard to find, but then again, so was the 6800 Ultra back in those days.
 
Marvelous said:
if the r600 sucks and it gets delayed that means Nvidia will be taking over for couple generations...

8800 is really tough to beat... Only time will tell.

(thoughts)
ATI always did eat up more power and needed more 12volts on rail. I wonder how much power the R600 will eat?
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That's a big if. Two big ifs actually (if the R600 sucks, and/or if it gets delayed).

The original article is by the Inquirer, that brings you accuracy similar to Fox's "Fair and Balanced" news coverage. And when they are wrong, people just note that most of their articles like this are based on rumor and possibility and "officials that could not be named", and life goes on.

Only ATI truly knows what ATI is up to, but do remember they were the first to say their next-gen card would be a fully unified architecture, so like nVidia's G80, the design should be interesting at least. From someone who has owned seven cards of one vendor's GPU, and seven of the others, over a period of a decade and a half, they've both had their high and low points. We'll have to wait and see. Currently, I have an nVidia card, but since I have no brand loyalty in GPU's, I have to say I hope the red team will give the green team a run for their money.
 
It is indeed possible it has been 'delayed' due to another re-spin, but I'm just going to wait because I think a product that hasn't been given an official release date can be 'delayed'...
 
Ohh yes my friend... Take a look at S.T.A.L.K.E.R., TF2, and HL2 - Episode 2 are some that pop into my head at a short notice...
 
i really hope the r600 will kick some serius ass! :D


and ye.. where the hell is TF2 LOL
 
With the list of games due out around March, it would be REALLY unwise for ATI not to have some serious momentum by then.

If ATI only launch in March and don't have high supply, I think Nvidia will clean up which will be a shame for competition (and us all).
 
Hopefully the "delay" is making sure it's a hard launch instead of a "paper launch".:confused:
 
Cyrilix said:
This wasn't true for the X800 XT / X800 XT PE, which were marvels of engineering considering power/performance. Too bad the XT PE version was really hard to find, but then again, so was the 6800 Ultra back in those days.
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lol...marvels of engineering? They used about the same amount of power...the only reason the 6800s did less work with more power is because they had a featureset that made the x800s look silly...

The same could be said about the 7900s, compared to the x1900s the 7900s have great power consumption, but their featureset leaves something to be desired...
 
Kowan said:
Hopefully the "delay" is making sure it's a hard launch instead of a "paper launch".:confused:
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I really can't stress enough that THERE IS NO DELAY. The Inquirer makes up a release date. And when it looks like they are going to be wrong they make up a reason why the card is "delayed". All we know for a fact is that R600 was targeted for Q1 2007...and that's where we currently are. It could show up at any time. Since no official release date has been set, it can't possibly be delayed. The Inquirer is just making things up so they have something to post on their front page, so they can generate page views, so they can get more money.

In reality, the Inquirer has no clue when R600 is coming out.
 
^eMpTy^ said:
lol...marvels of engineering? They used about the same amount of power...the only reason the 6800s did less work with more power is because they had a featureset that made the x800s look silly...

The same could be said about the 7900s, compared to the x1900s the 7900s have great power consumption, but their featureset leaves something to be desired...
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IIRC, the 6800s were up around 100W, whereas the X800s were around 80-85W. This is what I remember from the far reaches of my memory. Of course, I could be proven wrong.
 
The "delay" is people waiting to see what ATi anwers the G80 with so those waiting to build a new setup can make a video choice. People see the G80 launch and wonder why the R600 hasn't been launched yet.

I'm not one of them. I chose to get a X1950 Pro AGP and upgrade later in the year once Vista has been out long enough for some decent drivers to be released.

Not in a hurry to upgrade just yet.
 
^eMpTy^ said:
I really can't stress enough that THERE IS NO DELAY. The Inquirer makes up a release date. And when it looks like they are going to be wrong they make up a reason why the card is "delayed". All we know for a fact is that R600 was targeted for Q1 2007...and that's where we currently are. It could show up at any time. Since no official release date has been set, it can't possibly be delayed. The Inquirer is just making things up so they have something to post on their front page, so they can generate page views, so they can get more money.

In reality, the Inquirer has no clue when R600 is coming out.
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How do you know that's the way the Inquirer operates?
 
^eMpTy^ said:
lol...marvels of engineering? They used about the same amount of power...the only reason the 6800s did less work with more power is because they had a featureset that made the x800s look silly...

The same could be said about the 7900s, compared to the x1900s the 7900s have great power consumption, but their featureset leaves something to be desired...
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Both had their pros and cons. I respectfully disagree with you. And if you consider the botched implementation of PureVideo on the NV40/45-based 6800 designs, as well as some limitations of how AA (or combining AA and HDR) worked in the 6xxx/7xxx series, I consider ATI to be no worse. The only thing I think you can knock ATI for is support for only Shader Model 2.0b in the X8xx series of cards. Oh, and possibly the OEM cooler, which some felt was too loud (I had one on my X1800GTO2, and it didn't seem all that loud to me).
 
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