2,000,000!!

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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."

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/amd-gpu-dx11-radeon-directx,news-32516.html

Go AMD. :)

Apparently PC gaming isn't dead after all?

Two million of them sold in three months, compared to say, 4.5 million Xbox 360s over the past three months... but, of course, these have been severely supply constrained, and this also doesn't include DX10 GPUs, or anything NVIDIA has as well.

Here in Finland they still have huge supply problems. You can't find any DX11 card that would be avaible in stores. It is so supply constrained. Stores have gotten just some small shipments =/. Hopefully they can solve these problems by spring.(I am buying new PC)

Christ, that's some going. I knew gaming hardware sales were big business, but didn't realise they were quite that big.

Wow, go AMD! I never thought the DX11 cards would sell this well so early on.

Credit to AMD

I've actually had the second one for over a month now, but I just got around to updating the picture the other night.  I intend on buying a third sometime in the future as well.

Eyefinity's great, and lots of games work with the non-traditional aspect ratios too.  The only problem is really, that with FPS, having the crosshair split in two in the middle's annoying.

Though, and I guess this goes without saying - Crysis was unplayable at max res (maxed out), but damn did it look sexy. :(

Shipped, not sold. Unlike consoles, PC parts have much higher numbers just sitting in stock warehouses and things.

While that is true, the 5800s, which amount to the majority of their production, have been for the most part consistently sold out at most retailers.

Not doubting, just saying. I hate the idea that my XFX HD 4890 is no longer in the top 3 single GPU cards Makes me feel like I need to spend more money.....

Yep. In the UK, three of the biggest retailers (Scan, EBuyer and Dabs) have barely any 58XX models in stock.