AMD Claims Over 800 Thousand of DirectX 11 GPUs Shipped
ATI said on Monday that it had shipped over 800 thousand of DirectX 11 GPUs, in which over 500 thousand are Radeon HD 5700 series GPUs codenamed Juniper and the remaining 300 thousand units are Cypress chips that power Radeon HD 5800/5900 series graphics cards, reports Xbitlabs.
AMD’s graphics business unit seems to have high chances of shipping around one million of DX11 graphics processors this year, thanks to partly resolved supply issues with 40nm chips.
The shipments of ATI DX11 products were slowed down by TSMC’s poor yields of 40nm chips, and the fact that ATI’s arch-rival NVIDIA doesn’t offer DX11 graphics cards is another reason why the demand towards the new Radeon HD 5000 family greatly exceeds supply.
If what the company said is true, we’ll hopefully see greater revenue and profits in AMD’s quarterly financial report which is set to be released on January 22nd, 2010.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:06 am
NVIDIA RULES BIATCHES
December 16th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I don’t see NVidia selling anything near the amount of 800.000 GPUs with DX11 capability. I bet those overpriced not-yet-announced-Fermi won’t sell for sh*t. And if they even do exist, keep them coming, but don’t even think they can sell 800k in the little time of 2 or 3 monts.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I agree, but I would make minor improvement adding one word – ONLY, so it’ll be “NVIDIA RULES ONLY BIATCHES” BYE!
December 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
With the library of DX11 titles overflowing, AMD has done well to provide this much needed compatibility so early. \o/ Its a shame theyre still over 2billionUSD in debt and their green counterparts have just posted a Q4 profit – even without the fermis.