The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[Calmatory]

Nope, their underestimation of RV770's "price/performance" translates into their gross underestimation of it, as there's not much left of it to "estimate correctly".

Nobody, had the faintest clue about it having 800 SPs until the day it was launched and its official specs were put up.

Why wouldn't anybody have a clue? Engineers at Nvidia for sure know how much you can fit SP's to a chip while keeping it under the expected/assumed/rumoured die size. AMD planned to have 480 SP chip, but such design would be pad limited if using 256-bit MC which they had to do, so they were able to put more SP's in. Nvidia might not have expected this to happen at first, but for sure knew about this way before than anyone was speculating this on forums.

Regardless of whether they knew about RV770s specs or not, they would not have changed their own design anyway, the only thing they could do was to adjust the pricing, and they decided to milk.

"NVIDIA are smart, powerful, brilliant, telepathic and knew everything at ATI" is a frail argument, not supported by anything that went on between Q2~Q3 2008.

Great way to exaggerate. I was talking about Nvidias chip architects and engineers having a clue about what RV770 might be, what rumours might be true, what to expect from it etc., not about the companies itself. You really seem to want to take this as NVIDIA vs ATI arguing, in that case nothing can come out from this. Thanks, I'm out.