Quote Originally Posted by J-Mag
You truely believe that we will see a 32pipe part here?

I HIGHLY doubt that, but I would love to eat my own words of corse, i just don't see it as feasable. I mean JEEZUS did you see the die size of the 7800GTX? It will have to be substantially larger than that if they are still running on the 110nm.
If there is a magic Nvidia Fairy that helped them to 90nm I could see this happening, but so far GPUs don't seem to be yeilding good results on 90nm, just look at what happend to r520.
Not all gpu's aren't. Microsoft is having NO problem pumping out R500's for their X-box360, and they run on the 90nm process as well. It's just that because ATi sold that chip to microsoft, they had to start over again with the R520, and obviously, they started a bit too late to get it done right. ATi was trying to tackle making an enthusiast class chipset, a new videocard arc., a multi-gpu platform, and various otherthings... They simply bit off more than they could chew.

NVidia, on the otherhand, was smart and released a 110nm part first, so as to put the heat on ATi. Meanwhile, with the heat off of them, they had all the time in the world to work on the die shrink, while not being pressured to get something out as they currently have the top performance cards on the market.

It's not 90nm that's the problem, it's the R520 chip that's the problem.