Quote Originally Posted by ownage View Post
Yes, 55nm really works for ATI. 576mm2 is to large, especially when a RV770 is twice as small.
RV770 = between 830 and 1300 million transistors = 256mm2
GT200 = 1000 million transistors =576mm2

If you look it like this they really should have used 55nm die shrink instead of 65nm. GT206 will be 55nm.

R600 had 30% transistors then G80 but G80 owned R600. ATI RV770 has to be really efficient to keep up with nVidia.
It looks to me nVidia might have a killer card, although I'm not sure about the heat dump. I hate stupid heatspreaders on GFX cards.
So how is it you don't know how many transistors RV770 has but you seem to know that GT200 has exactly 1 billion? Did you count them yourself?