According to secondary partners, no mass delivery of Fermi is expected until April

It is possible that, although distribution will begin on March 26, only a very limited number of GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 video cards will be available for an extended period of time.

NVIDIA - as we know - confirmed that the GeForce GTX480 / 470 video cards would be available on 26 March, but that there were also rumors that mass production would not take place in practice before April, as the second line of fire partners still did not receive the final reference. construction plans.

A According to Digitimes information NVIDIA focuses on primary partnerships, in other words, vendors that make exclusively GeForce-based products. Such are the XFX and PNY, which come out of their care The GTX 480 and GTX 470 models have already appeared on some pre-order lists, but of course they are not available anywhere from stock.

Unfortunately, this means that AMD will not necessarily be forced to lower the price of DX 11-compatible Radeons, as NVIDIA's new Fermi-based GeForces will be priced higher than Radeons at the moment, of course this is due to performance differences. will depend. In any case, analysts do not expect a price war after the start, by no means before May.