R600 not to be available until April?

[chaminga_d]

Last month, reports appeared saying the upcoming ATI code-name R600 graphics processor from AMD wouldn't be introduced until March. However, according to VR-Zone, the R600's rumored March introduction will be a paper launch. The site says the card won't actually hit stores (http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4572) until April, which would be roughly five months after the hard launch of Nvidia's GeForce 8800-series cards in early November 2006. VR-Zone says AMD is also prepping R600 derivatives dubbed R630 for the mid-range market and R610 for the low-end, and that those GPUs will be launched in April, with availability in May.

[Anusha]

Yeah men. This is sooo disturbing. That means, there won't be a price war, and the current prices will not fall by a lot. I mean, nVidia don't have to lower them because they have the fastest cards.

I wonder what the mid-range products from ATI (AMD) will be like. Hopefully they'll beat the 8600Ultra or even come close to the 8800GTS (at least the 320MB version).

[chaminga_d]

Honestly, until DX10 games arrive, who gives a flying dung? If R600 lauches a little later just so it's a better product, but still beats DX10 games to market, then good for them for not releasing high-dollar buggy crap with shoddy drivers *cough cough Nvidia* onto the consumer. Sure, it sucks that the thing is already massively delayed but it's better to release a solid offering late than a piece of crap early or even on time....

The only losers are the people who "need" a high-end DX10 card immediately but don't want to suffer Nvidia's currently driver inadequacy.....

Once it does arrive if it still has bugs and driver issues well then that'll be a shame.....