2009 really was not very active, especially in terms of new product announcements. For example, in the graphics market most of the year was spent waiting for new products with support for DirectX 11. In early 2009, began producing nVidia GeForce GTX 295, graphics card, which dominated in the upper segment of the market of graphics cards up to November 2009.Typically, users are the best choice cards on chip nVidia GTX 285 and GTX 260, both in 55nm performance. Further, the market has been the video card AMD HD 4870 and HD 4850, and let's not forget the dual-chip solution HD 4870 X2, but they usually work a bit slower than those in the nVidia. The first part of nVidia enjoyed a clear advantage. However, nVidia started to spoil life for themselves and users. It all started with the re-branding, when the manufacturer has decided to rename the chip GeForce 9800 GTX +, based on the G92, on the GeForce GTS 250. In terms of sales, "new" chip is a clear winner, but it's just a deception of the market.

For computer entry level or ATI, or nVidia can not offer anything worthwhile. Chips are normal, but no more, and most of them are not even worth mentioning. These are sufficient for most popular gamesthat are a little harder Minesweeper and Solitaire, the ultimate HD video, in general, everything.

Spring ATI dared to release their own first 40 nm chips for graphics cards. One of the most unfortunate decisions when it was called the new chip Radeon HD 4770, as a result they enjoyed not so popular as they could. Nevertheless, the end of summer, you might say, belonged to ATI. At Computex AMD demonstrated its first graphics chip to support DirectX 11 family of Evergreen. This chip worked, and the manufacturer even demonstrated the DirectX 11. In August, AMD has been quite good enough to show some testing new items, and in the last week of September, in the last days of the third quarter of 2009, the producer decided to release the video card Radeon HD 5870, 5850 and 5770.

AMD leaders decided to abandon the usual naming of chips RV870 and use Cypress as a code name for its flagship single-chip graphics cards 5870 and 5850, code-named "Juniper used for the 57xx, and later appeared Hemlock dual-chip graphics card Radeon HD 5970. AMD first introduced the solution with support for DirectX 11, and now, before the New Year, it is still the only company that offers these graphics cards DirectX 11.

nVidia, of course, responded to the announcement of ATI, recounting some details of its upcoming technologies used in the architecture of Fermi. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest disappointments in 2009 was the architecture of Fermi. This architecture looks good on paper, its 512 shaders seem to be promising and could potentially be faster than solutions ATI, nVidia but only if all his efforts and submit it.

Let's continue with Fermi. We were led to believe that his release will take place in November and December and then early in the first quarter. It is quite obvious that this card does not appear on the market before the end of the first quarter of 2010. Judging by how things stand at the moment, it would be surprising to see significant supply Fermi until the second quarter of 2010. By that time, ATI may submit a new video card, upgrade a series of Evergreen, but this model is unlikely to surpass Fermi, of course, if we ever see Issue Fermi.

TSMC is also not so hot this year. Even now, there is a serious shortage of 40 nm chips, and some sources suggest that the yield TSMC 40 nm chip is only 50%, which is certainly below any acceptable number. This makes the lack of high-performance graphics even more serious, and hardly a problem easily solved in 2010, at least for now, made no mention.Currently, there is a serious shortage of high-performance solutions like nVidia, and ATI.

So, now, in the last days of the outgoing 2009, ATI is the clear winner in the graphics market. She has been actively selling series 5X00, shipped since the release of nearly a million units sold as well remains the series 4x00, so ATI, of course, is currently on the market of graphics dominant player. ATI took 6 years to get back on that pedestal with a chip RV870, Cypress. nVidia have something to regret, and you can say for sure that Jen-Sung is not happy that the competitors walked his offspring. In terms of nVidia's good that ATI can not yet deliver enough graphics processor supporting DirectX 11, however nVidia do not like so much time to be unable to adequately respond to Evergreen. With confidence we can expect interesting battles graphics solutions in 2010. As for 2009, you can simply say that we are happy that it is almost completed.