Chasing up retail samples of the GTX 400 series is continuing to be a pain with word being that manufactures aren’t expecting their stock till after Easter now which would make retail supply of the model fall back even further then the second week of April.

As for actual supply of the model no one really knows anything because stock hasn’t arrived to the manufactures yet; one would hope that the delay is due to NVIDIA getting more stock together so supply isn’t an issue.

The cut back in the amount of CUDA cores was also designed to help combat the amount of available stock at launch with NVIDIA saying they would be in a better position than there competitor. The real question on everyone’s mind is how much better though; will it be slightly better than the HD 5870 and HD 5970 or will it be significantly better.

Hopefully we’ll know more after Easter as stock arrives.