ATI's DX11 GPU not till November

[philbar71]

AMD's first DirectX 11 graphics chip won't appear in products you can buy before November, despite being demoed more than a month ago.

AMD first showed off its DX11 GPU - codenamed 'RV870' - at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan early in June.

To be fair, AMD didn't say when the ATI-branded GPU would go on sale beyond stating that it would appear "before the end of 2009". This gives it plenty room to release the part early or late, according to necessity.

Some pundits have speculated that the chip could be out as early as September, but German-language site ATI-Forum reckons RV870 won't appear until November, at the earliest. It said the yields chip foundry TSMC was getting with its 40nm process aren't yet high enough for AMD to consider mass-producing RV870 in an earlier-rather-than-later timeframe.

Of course, AMD's first DX11 GPU will not a be massive seller straight away - too few DX11 games are available for that - so the yield issue may not matter per se. More likely, it wants to make sure that the working 40nm chips coming off TSMC's production line are products it hopes to sell in greater volumes than RV870 will sustain.

DX11 will be part of Windows 7 - due in October - and is expected to be retrofitted to Vista with a Service Pack update shortly afterwards. Windows 7 will make use of the framework, using the API's CPU-on-GPU workload shifting to accelerate processor-intensive tasks.

DX11 also brings tessellation and with it the promise of much more complex geometries - essentially, more detailed models than we've seen before. ®

AMD's first DirectX 11 GPU 'not out until November' ? Register Hardware

this makes me mad. i though they were supposed to be out this month. weren't they boasting that they were going to beat nvidia to DX11?

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Since the delay is due to problems with TSMC's 40nm process it's very likely nvidia's new cards will be delayed as well.

 

[zedman3d]

Since the delay is due to problems with TSMC's 40nm process it's very likely nvidia's new cards will be delayed as well.

NOAAAOAOAAWW!!





Thought id give everyone a laugh.... hehe
Heres a thought, how does Microsoft test DX11 and such when hardware doesnt exist to run it? Run it on the CPU?

 

[philbar71]

^ good question, i think they probably set some kind of standard or something that the manufactures follow. in the mean time they probably have some kind of HW that can run it for creation and testing purposes.

 

[Apokalipse]

Since the delay is due to problems with TSMC's 40nm process it's very likely nvidia's new cards will be delayed as well.

It's the same reason 4770's are not easy to find in stock. The GPU is manufactured at 40nm by TSMC.

 

[james.wired]

Came across this...

Rumors proven false- ATI to launch DirectX 11 GPUs in seven weeks - Bright Side Of News*

ATI will catapult not one, but rather a complete DirectX 11 line-up into the orbit, ranging from $50 to the high end parts in their respective three-figure pricing brackets. Just like the Radeon 4000 series, consisting out of 4400, 4500, 4600, 4700 and 4800 parts, the new Radeon series will consist out of entry-level [Hemlock], mainstream [Cedar, Redwood], performance [Juniper] and high-end part [Cypress]. When it comes to codenames, you'll notice that all of these parts have codenames from plants, with some belonging into the same family [Cedar, Juniper, Redwood] Note that not all of these parts will be launched on the same day. Some parts might have to wait until Holiday season to get them in OEM-level numbers, but all in all - this is the strongest line-up ATI had in years. We might even dare to say strongest line-up ever from any GPU manufacturer.

 

[philbar71]

^ according to that we will have dx 11 cards in september. hmm, hope it's true.

 

[veg1992]

Sweet... I need to hold off on that GPU upgrade I had planned then

Hopefully they keep the idea of high performance at a low price

 

[philbar71]

hmm, i'm just hoping it will be competive with nvidias offering. which is shaping up to be quite a beast.

 

[veg1992]

I hope it does, I'm not paying $200+ for a card that's barely better than a HD 4890/GTX 275

Most likely though I'll spend in the $150 ish range though