Nvidia GT300 yields are under 2%

[saaya]

Last time that happened from nVidia's side, do you know what happened? G80.

And only a week or so before effective launch, enthusiast comunity knew what to expect, and even then we were surprised by it.

I am not saying that G300 will be revolutionary (performance wise) as G80 was, but it might be.

Patience is what you have to have.

lets just assume g300 is more than 2x as fast as g200... then what? what are you gonna do with all that gpu power? there are no new demanding games coming out for a while, the only one i know of is crysis2...
unless you have a 30" display, what would you want that much gpu power for?

G92 9800GTX ---> G200 GTX 280 is like a 3x speed increase.

wha?

I just think NVIDIA rather sooner than later should drop this silly tactics to focus mainly on highend, it's not a healthy business in the long run try to rely on releasing a big but fast card as there's many disadvantages that comes from this, mainly development time & cost, greater risk for yield issues, cooling & power limitation issues and not to mention there's far less customers in this price range than what ATI is focusing.

NVIDIA should try to offer a great from top-to-bottom product range based on a new arch, if they manage to pull a successful series then that would be disastrous to ATIs current tactics which would have to lower prices greatly and possibly still not getting any sales, it would start chewing on their market share which atm is what ATI is very interested.

The perhaps biggest problem right now is that even if their big fat chip is fast, ATI will still get sales as they have nothing that competes in the same price range. I just don't see the logic behind NVIDIA atm, hopefully HD 5xxx series will teach em'.

yeah thats what i dont get either... was their strategy really to have g200 and g92 only? one highend chip and use the last gens highend as mainstream? thats a terrible strategy leaving wide gaps... i really hope they already learned their lesson with g200 and the rumors about several cut down g300 parts coming out soon after g300 are true...

its getting hard to justify buying a super highend vga these days unless your benching... same for cpus... there is not that much you gain from going mainstream to highend these days...

2x that can't be true.

i think its true, but its for only 4 hotlot wafers... so it doesnt really mean too much... what it means is that g300 is not ready for mass production and even a press launch at the end of this year seems unlikely. how much time and work itll take to get yields up is really unclear... its like putting together a pc in 3 minutes asap in a big rush, and then it hangs on bootup... it doesnt work, but you cant tell how long itll take to fix... could be a very simple thing you overlooked since you rushed it... or it could mean one part is damaged or you need lots of debugging to get it running... kinda similar here i think...