At least from some partners
Nvidia partners should be able to showcase the upcoming
Fermi-based Geforce GTX 480 graphics card at Cebit, but we doubt that this will be the time for
the official card launch.
Nvidia's DirectX 11 architecture, codenamed
Fermi, comes some six months after the first Radeon HD 5000-series card hit the market and in
the past six months, ATI has managed to launch an entire DirectX 11 generation including the HD 57×0
series, the HD 56×0 series and most recently the HD 54×0 series.
Nvidia has delayed its Fermi generation for
unknown reasons, and the company does not want to discuss it at this time. However, the company does plan to finally launch its long-anticipated, single-GPU, next-generation cards in March. Despite Nvidia’s promise to have healthy
availability at launch, we are quite sure that the products will be in short
supply from its launch.
