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Thought it was time to give the upcoming Nvidia Kepler GPU's a thread of its own. VR-Zone posted a juicy rumor today that confirms my belief that Nvidia is not pushing Kepler to June, but rather bringing it around March-April (which I've previously said would be the latest they could release Kepler unless they wanted AMD pounding their asses for 6 months.
Other stuff about Kepler: It may not be a GTX 6xx series, but a 7xx series, much like Nvidia leapfrogged 3xx series by only releasing it as mobile cards (360m GTS, anyone) and went straight to 4xx.
Next, I know for a fact Kepler prototypes are out in the wild being used in real world situations by those in the gaming industry who need them. That's really all I can say. Nvidia's developer relationship has not been abandoned and they definitely need all the support they can get with AMD putting out the stellar 79xx's.
I'll update this thread as more info becomes available, but I do truly believe NVidia is rushing hard to bring Kepler out in March or April, possibly April to coincide with Ivy Bridge since Nvidia is partnering up for Intel for Ivy Bridge mobile.
According to our sources, what NVIDIA does not want to do is a paper launch of the product, thus the launch of their first high-end Kepler part will only occur once there are enough units for the first wave of consumers.
The company originally scheduled GeForce Kepler for the launch in the first quarter (i.e. fiscal fourth quarter 2012), Quadro Kepler was scheduled for the second quarter (i.e. fiscal first quarter 2013) and Tesla Kepler was scheduled for the third quarter (second fiscal quarter 2013).
However, the new plan calls for launching the GeForce Kepler when the company is able to insure hard availability and have all of its partners covered.
Will it be in the dying weeks or March or steal Ivy Bridge’s thunder with the launch around April 8... only time will tell.
Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-...il--hard-launch-only/14538.html#ixzz1jOXZoPq6
Other stuff about Kepler: It may not be a GTX 6xx series, but a 7xx series, much like Nvidia leapfrogged 3xx series by only releasing it as mobile cards (360m GTS, anyone) and went straight to 4xx.
Next, I know for a fact Kepler prototypes are out in the wild being used in real world situations by those in the gaming industry who need them. That's really all I can say. Nvidia's developer relationship has not been abandoned and they definitely need all the support they can get with AMD putting out the stellar 79xx's.
I'll update this thread as more info becomes available, but I do truly believe NVidia is rushing hard to bring Kepler out in March or April, possibly April to coincide with Ivy Bridge since Nvidia is partnering up for Intel for Ivy Bridge mobile.