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nVidia was doing one thing this year and that was showing off 3D. Since AMD had launched their 6800 series the day prior to Blizzcon I couldn't help prodding one of the representatives about it. The response was a little suprising because it involved an evasion of the question and an expression of optimism about Intel's Sandy Bridge. It would seem that nVidia is hoping that Intel can start to put the hurt on AMD in the budget CPU market and push them out of the market (and thus taking AMD's GPUs with them). Not sure how realistic that idea is, but it certainly was an interesting conversation. nVidia may not have wanted to talk video cards but some of the other hardware vendors were not quite so discrete by the way and I received confirmation of the GTX 580 and was given a release date of the second week in November by one of the other vendors at Blizzcon.

Izvor: Guru3D