Graphic Cards Nvidia kills GTX285, GTX275, GTX260

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NVIDIA IS KILLING the GTX260, GTX275, and GTX285 with the GTX295 almost assured to follow as Nvidia (Nvidia: NVDA) abandons the high and mid range graphics card market. Due to a massive series of engineering failures, nearly all of the company's product line is financially under water, and mismanagement seems to be killing the company.
Not even an hour after we laid out the financial woes surrounding the Nvidia GTX275 and GTX260, word reached us that they are dead. Normally, this would be an update the original article, but this news is has enough dire implications that it needs it's own story. Nvidia is in desperate shape, whoop-ass has turned to ash, and the wagons can't be circled any tighter.
Word from sources deep in the bowels of 2701 San Tomas Expressway tell us that the OEMs have been notified that the GTX285 is EOL'd, the the GTX260 is EOL in November or December depending on a few extraneous issues, and the GTX275 will be EOL'd within 2 weeks. I would expect this to happen about time ATI launches their Juniper based boards, so before October 22.
The lone survivor, maybe, is the GTX295, available only as a complete board from Nvidia. This is said to be almost impossible to get, likely for reasons we went into in the earlier financial article, cost. AIBs do not expect this product to last very long, likely until current stock is depleted.
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SemiAccurate :: Nvidia kills GTX285, GTX275, GTX260, abandons the mid and high end market
 
i think IMO its the right step coz they will launch fermi soon

so they dont want competing with thr own products when fermi comes out

its like alienating xbox when 360 came
 
Gannu said:
Charlie's site. I'd take that with a pinch of cyanide.
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I would say the same, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it happens sometime in the future. In fact I am kinda of expecting it. nVidia seems to be slowly trying to move away from the GPU business and looking to expand into other markets. Fermi specs indicate as much. Its a good thing for nVidia's future.
 
in any market if there is no competition then the consumer is at loss....

currently only nvidia and amd produce gpu's at mass scale.......if nvidia ventures into other areas ignoring 3d games then we are left with only amd(atleast until larrabee arrives) which in any terms is not good....
 
Even if ATI is too much technologically ahead, the market share of nvidia is much more than ATI. They shouldn't have to stop those sweet cards. They are really doin the job, even if technologically backward in paper.

Anyway at this moment ATI too is suffering from shortage for 40nm cards, it wont do much damage to nvidia in time being till they readies their GTX 300.
 
if nvidia doesnt bring a new product to compete against 5 series then the 5 series cards prices will not come down and i will be unable to upgrade...we need competition to bring out the best
 
Gannu said:
Charlie's site. I'd take that with a pinch of cyanide.
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exactly. anything charlie says (semiaccurate.com) should not be trusted outright. the guy hates nvidia with a passion. likewise, anything fuad says (fudzilla.com) should be taken as nvidia marketing. they are both just not credible sources of information with the bias that they show.

Lord Nemesis said:
I would say the same, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it happens sometime in the future. In fact I am kinda of expecting it. nVidia seems to be slowly trying to move away from the GPU business and looking to expand into other markets.
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you're wrong. nvidia is definitely looking to expand into other markets but they are not moving away from the gpu business. it forms the largest part of their company's revenues and they are the world leader in market share of discrete gpus. no company walks away from that. they are not going to just roll over and die because demerijan the dumbass said so.
 
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incorrect info. nvidia isnt going to abandon its hot-selling series.

Anyways, GTX300 is surely late but it does seem STRONG enough to make people switch/wait.

So i guess:

hash said:
Can't believe it! Check mate by AMD.
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AMD has made its VFM move, Now nvidia is supposed to make its POWER move.
 
NVIDIA can relaunch 1 GPU in 3 flavors with different series names. how can they end life cycles of so many products. i find it funny :)
 
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