Quote Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004 View Post
" I suspect the GTX 380 will beat the Radeon 5870 in a majority of games and benchmarks but not necessarily all." .... that would suck for nvidia, they NEED To pull out by quite a bit if they trade blows even in 1 or 2 games.. then its in target for 5890... and assuming ati (having smaller dies) will be easier/cheaper to make, there going to be better price/perf again

tbh i dont think its nvidia's fault.. as much as tmsc's... im pretty sure if tmsc didnt heave yield problems nvidia would be better equipped right now. but same could be said for ATI? but meh
I've thaught about AMD having smaller dies for their GPUs but I don't think it necessarily meens better yields...

While Nvidia have the uberhuge die, they have lower clock frequencies but looking at AMD we see the opposite, a small die and really high frequencies. I might actually go as far as saying the yielddifference between AMD and Nvidias topmodels at negligable?