NVIDIA has despite its meager and expensive assortment of G80-based graphics cards shipped a considerable amount of its hottest GPUs since the launch. During a press conference NVIDIA revealed that it has shipped 400,000 GeForce 8800 graphics circuits since October, 2006. An impressive figure considering it only offers high-performance models at relatively high prices. When NVIDIA broadens its assortment the shipping figures will probably go through the roof and the same goes for when laptop circuits gets DirectX 10 support through GeForce 8-based circuits.
“The head of Nvidia also confirmed that the company has plans to release a family of GPUs for notebooks based on the GeForce 8 architecture in time for Intel’s code-named Santa Rosa platform launch, which is likely to be late Q1 or early Q2 2007, which means that commercial shipments of lower-power GeForce 8 are just around the corner.”
