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nVidia GeForce GTX 400 Yields Are at 20% - 30%, Further Delays Possible

In a bid to improve yields of the code-named GF100 chip (NV60, GT300, G300), nVidia disabled 32 out of 512 stream processors even on flagship GeForce GTX 480 graphics board, however, after the product was formally launched on the 12th of April, it is still rarely available and where it is in stock, it costs much more than its recommended price of $499.

Since nVidia’s top-of-the-range GeForce GTX 480 has not managed to recapture performance leadership from ATi Radeon HD 5970 and is also not widely available, the halo effect of the advanced product launch will not be significant. Recently ATi already announced that it had shipped over six milion DirectX 11 graphics processors since late September, meanwhile, according to Rajvindra Gill, nVidia has supplied less than ten thousand of its GF100 chips.