AMD Ships Two Millionth DirectX 11 GPU
2,000,000!!
AMD is plenty proud of itself for beating the competition to market with its DirectX 11 parts, and today at CES the company expressed even more pleasure at its hitting the milestone of 2 million DX11 GPU shipped.
AMD pointed out that it was able to reach this milestone three months after the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, the first DirectX 11-capable graphics products from AMD.
"Today's milestone underscores the ingenuity and innovation that AMD poured into the DirectX 11-capable ATI Radeon Premium Graphics products,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Products Group, AMD. “Fifteen weeks ago we introduced the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics cards to the world, the first to support DirectX 11 and powerful capabilities like ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, with support for Direct Compute 11. Over the course of the last few months, we’ve shipped tens of thousands of DirectX 11-capable graphics processors a week to technology partners who in turn put them into consumers’ hands. With this week’s introduction of the DirectX 11-capable notebook counterparts to our desktop family in the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series, an even larger base of users will enjoy the best visual computing experience available today."
"Being first to market with new technology and initiatives gives a company a strong lead, and if properly managed, a sustainable advantage," said Dr. Jon Peddie, founder and president, Jon Peddie Research. "AMD has been first to market with DirectX 11 graphics products, and as a result, all of the new DirectX 11 games have used those products as the basis for their development. This gives AMD a substantial advantage."
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Good for AMD...
Im sure if you could manufacture more, you would of sold more...
But anyhow this is good news.
I brought HD 5850. This is good news for ATI. Since NVIDIA has no intention for gamers but business. Soon green fanboys will have to move to ATI.
Shipped 2 million ??? Where to ???? You cant ship 2 million and have availability this low and prices this high, apparently due to poor availability and high demand.
15 weeks ago they say launch was and that they have shipped tens of thousands over the last few weeks. Well i recon a hell of a lot of what they are counting is the intigrated solutions in motherboards shipped to laptop partners.
I would like to know how many actual descrete GPU's they have shipped ?
Mactronix
AMD have done well. I'd actually consider ATI as an option. A few years ago they weren't worth looking at.
AMD have done well. I'd actually consider ATI as an option.
Actually consider them as an option? Oh because what, you're perfectly happy instead as an NV customer who will have to pay £50 more for the same performance (minus dx11) ?
Yep simple maths means they must be pulling something here. They said tens of thousands a week,so thats 99,000 at most and even if we go for the full 15 weeks that only comes out at 1485000.
Mactronix