The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[Piotrsama]

About the RV770, whole chip was screwed in terms of power consumption...RV670 was pretty good at idle, RV770 sucked and RV870 follows the good RV670 tradition now...

IIRC, not all the RV770s had high power draw on idle (4850 used GDDR3).
So it's not the chip itself, but the memory controller that couldn't put the GDDR5 in a lower consumption mode.

So in the end it seems it's going to be a repeat of RV770 against GT200 this generation again with Cypress vs Fermi, but with the GeForce part coming into the battle with a 6+ months delay and probably a diminished availability due to manufacturing difficulties with 40nm process. Isn't it?

And ATI already has the dual gpu solution on the market.