Quote Originally Posted by gOJDO View Post
I doubt that nVidia will make a dual-chip GT200 based card. Even with a die-shrink, a single die is still going to be a space heater.

IMO, with die-shirnk nVidia are going to raise the clocks of GTX 280, add 16 more SPs and they'll do some simple improvements.
The GT200 seems to have only 240 SPs instead of the popular consensus of 256 + 96TMU. No redundancy that is, like the 8800GTX at launch.

They can't really shrink to much efficiency, they have to get a balance between the bus width (too big) and ROP count (too much). 384bit + GDDR5 in the future seems to be the best balance, otherwise they'd still have to use a 400+mm^2 die in 40nm!

Why are people disregarding a chance for ATI to make the same RV770, just with double the specs, and still a small chip compared to the GT200 later on (units are small compared to memory bus), I have no idea. That chip is apparently, called the R(V)870 or what you may say otherwise.


Heard GT200 info from a buddy who has looked at the core die itself, so I'd let you guys go on from there.