14 DAY TRIAL // In the wake of the NVIDIA GTX 580 and the supposed delay of AMD's own HD 6970, it appears that a certain other enthusiast-grade adapter will fail to show up in time for Christmas this year.
For those that have yet to learn, NVIDIA recently released the GeForce GTX 580 video card, its most powerful Fermi card yet.
It is also interesting how ASUS enabled its own model to go as high as 1,157 MHz in terms of GPU frequency.
This controller was supposed to be engaged by the Radeon HD 6970 from Advanced Micro Devices.
Unfortunately, not long ago, a rumor arose stating that said video controller may not, in fact, be released on the date that its maker has in mind.
Even more recently, however, the Sunnyvale, California-based company, while it did not make a big showing of it, revealed that a certain other video board has been delayed to Q1, 2011.
The video card in question is the Radeon HD 6990 and is a dual-GPU card using a pair of Cayman chips.
Initially, its developer's plan was to get it done in time for December, so that it may be available for the Holiday shopping season.
Unfortunately for the company, this means that NVIDIA will more or less dominate the high-end video market, especially if the supposed delay of the HD 6970 proves to be true.
As it stands, it appears that the HD 6990 will come out around the same time as AMD's lower-end boards, those based on the Caicos and Turks graphics processing units.
Granted, AMD can still make the official announcement of either board earlier, and leave availability for later, if only to distract attention from NVIDIA's products.
It is also interesting to note that if the card does get delayed, it will mean that NVIDIA will get its own chance at having a certain part of the market to itself for a while, much like how AMD owned the DirectX 11 front for months.