According to several sources GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expected to delay the production of its DirectX 11 supporting Fermi line to March 2010. Meanwhile competitor AMD is due to release additional GPUs in the January/February period reports VR Zone.
Fermi was initially intended to be released in November but was delayed until consumer electronics show CES in January due to rumoured product defects. Despite this the company has now reportedly notified manufacturers that this will be delayed until March.
As a result the company is fast falling behind AMD with regards to both recently released product ranges and DirectX support. Since the initial release of the GDDR5 HD5870 the manufacturer has launched a number of additional ‘current’ generation GPUs and plans to release the HD 5670/5570 (Redwood) and the HD 5450 in January and February.
Upon its eventual release Fermi will be based on a 40 nm manufacturing process and will be based on a GDDR5 memory structure. In the second quarter of 2010 the company also reportedly plans to release a Fermi GF104 model which will target high end consumers. Currently Nvidia is supporting its GeForce GTX295/285/275/260 range for this market.
Few details are currently available with regards to how Nvidia’s Fermi GPU will compete with AMD’s high end HD5870 and dual GPU HD 5790. Despite the promise of a new architecture some have criticised the company for being slow to react with regards to DirectX 11 support – thereby allowing AMD to capture a portion of Nvidia’s market share.
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