Quote Originally Posted by ToTTenTranz View Post
The extra SPs and less transistors could easily be explained by ATI putting the redundancy down a notch (55nm should be fully mature by now).
The additional TMUs could already be there.. or could be a result of a late redesign.


The ammount of "this is fake" posts I see in this thread reminds me of when the first leaks came out about a 800SPs/40TMUs design for RV770.
Everyone likes to be the first to say "I knew from the beggining this would be a fake". Oddly, when the same people end out being wrong, I never once saw a post saying "I guess I was wrong from the beggining".



Don't forget that ATI/AMD has to actively counterattack the "GTX260 core 216 + Big Bang II" phenomena. Even more if the GT200b 55nm cards end up with higher clocks.
yeah but more TMUs and SPs with less transistors makes no freakin sense without a process shrink.....