Nvidia GTX 480, 470 Delayed

[yzmxer608]

Report: Nvidia GTX 480, 470 Availability Delayed

Buyers itching to get rid of their stack of Benjamins for a Fermi will have to hold off for a bit longer, it seems.

It's no secret that making Fermi has been a harder-than-expected task for Nvidia, but the company will officially unveil its finalized product in the GeForce GTX 480 at the end of next week on March 26.

While you can expect to see an announcement at an event at PAX East coupled with plenty of benchmarks, a story posted on Shane Baxtor's site says that retail availability will come after the announcement date.

According to Baxtor, the original retail date was supposed to be March 29 but now that's been moved to April 6.

We reached out to Nvidia for clarification, but we were told to stay tuned to the company's stage show from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. next Friday. At any rate, hopefully boxes for Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 were filled with product and ready to greet gamers as soon as possible.

 

[Burn]

It may not be that long but nvidia really isn't making their customers happy right about now...

 

[35g700]

At this rate ATi will have their 6xxx series GPU's out before nVidia has their 4xx series... nVidia is really going to have to pull out something amazing if they plan to compete with ATi.

 

[wafflehammer]

I'm a nvidia fan boy at heart...but....this...this is just ATI teabagging nvidia and them asking for more :| I know a week isn't much but nvidia has put this off for way too long...especially for a product that is just going to be on par with ATI's product. Released 6 months after ATI and still just on PAR or maybe even slower? Ridiculous :|

 

[Trotter]

What's a week on top of the nine months so far?

/sarcasm