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Weak euro hurts graphics sales

by on28 May 2010


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Slower than usual


We asked around what is going on today in the graphics world, a month after Fermi launched. The summary looks something like this - Geforce GTX 480 sales are doing just fine; Nvidia is happy with the numbers and they finally have enough chips to sell.

Geforce GTX 470 is not selling that great, but it’s still moving. Nvidia fears that it might get stuck with quite a lot of GF100 Fermi based cards in the channel and until it clears out the GF100 stock, it cannot move to a new GF104 based products.

The launch of Geforce GTX 465 is expected sometimes next week, at Computex. ATI is still happy with having the fastest card on the market Radeon HD 5870 X2 and dual chip Nvidia cards is yet to be seen.

Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 are still selling but all graphics cards sales in Europe has slowed down and not selling as one would expect. Summer time can also take a part of the blame, but from what we hear, the slowdown in sales is stronger that one would expect for this time of the year.

It must be the euro-crisis.


Last modified on 28 May 2010
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