NVIDIA's Next Gaming Card

While I usually do not quote myself, I am in this instance to directly address what we think is going to happen in terms of NVIDIA getting a next generation video card into cosumers' hands. This is from the conclusion of our 5850 Review.

If you are waiting for NVIDIA to jump out of the GPU closet with a 5800 killer and put the fear into you for making a 5800 series purchase for Halloween, we suggest paper dragons are not that scary. We feel as though it will be mid-to-late Q1’10 before we see anything pop out of NVIDIA’s sleeve besides its arm. We are seeing rumors of a Q4’09 soft launch of next-gen parts, but no hardware till next year and NVIDIA has given us no reason to believe otherwise.

Jensen just had this to say live at the NVIDIA GPU Conference in regards to the next-gen GPU: "You will have to wait just a little longer." From that we went to talking about GPUs decoding HD Flash video.

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