ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[XSAlliN]

That´s not true. You don´t need such texturing power as that.
G80 with 32 TMU did just well and 8800 ultra is still much faster the 9800GTX in high res with AA and AF.

Yeah, but Ultra has only 128 Stream Processors - 32 TMU and 24 ROP bring a good balance in that configuration.

Compared to that 800SP /32 TMU + 16 ROP might look like disaster... hope the results are different. The high OC-ers might care only about high results in benchmarks, but the gamers care more about stability and balance between frames. What do I care if I can reach 60 FPS in Crysis from time to time, wille my FPS looks and feel like this:

next second 12 frames -> next second 45 frames -> next second 23 frames -> next second 60 frames -> next second 21 frames -> next second 7 frames -> next second 37 frames -> next second 42 frames -> next second 21 frames -> next second 58 frames -> and so on.