I still think they're holding off transition to a new process until 65nm.
Who wants to bet a cookie that the driver tweak activates the 'missing mul' for general shading?
G80's architecture is dual-issue scaler + MUL, yet the MUL is never issued. I don't know if it'll add (in some cases) 1/3 performance to G80, but it'll do something in the positive. I always figured this driver tweak would be for the 8800 when R600 is released. If they do not activate it on G80, but release the same silicon with it turned on and call it an 8900, I'd be royally pissed if I owned an 8800.
About the driver tweak being one that actually makes the G80/SLI fully work with Vista, I find that rather amusing.
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