14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that AMD is not the only company that is delaying one or more of its highly anticipated products, with NVIDIA having supposedly decided to push back the launch of a certain adapter of its own.
As end-users know, both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices are working on their own new dual-GPU graphics cards.
Granted, AMD has been selling one for about a year now while NVIDIA is only just now finishing its first one, at least as far as DirectX 11 GPUs go.
Unfortunately, for enthusiasts at least, it was recently revealed that AMD had decided to push back availability of the Antilles dual-chip model HD 6990 to Q1, 2011.
Now, an even more recent rumor suggests that its Santa Clara, California-based rival will be doing much the same thing to the GeForce GTX 590.
Said card will be built with two GF110 graphics processing units and is the product which NVIDIA is betting on in its quest to reclaim the performance crown.
As for AMD's own board, it will boast two Cayman chips, though no other details, save for what speculations can name, have been given.
It is interesting to note that there is a good reason why AMD would be cautious about when it delivers the new card.
Delaying the Antilles will let it and its partners exhaust existing HD 5970 inventories, as well as the supply of other cards based on the same GPU as the one used in their making.
AMD may have also been seeking to first see what NVIDIA could bring out and possibly tune its own model before letting it loose, so as to once again come out on top.
Now that NVIDIA has supposedly decided to play the same game, however, it is possible that both video controllers will debut around the very same time after all.