Quote Originally Posted by Cybercat View Post
It was closer to a 5x increase, and it's very possible they had to disable some TPCs to get it running.
thats not the point, to be able to run it, at all, the architecture has to be working 100% like it should, all instructions and combinations of instructions need to work exactly as they should... there are usually always some bugs, and yes you can work around them on a compiler level afaik, but it takes time to figure that out... you need to know about a bug first before you can work around it, and do it in a way that doesnt cost you a lot of performance...

they showed gt300 silicon which was supposedly so fresh out of the oven it was still steaming, yet they had it running highly complex maths pounding every transistor of the new pipeline like theres no tomorrow, at very high performance and without any bugs... im not saying its impossible, but its def something that raised my eyebrow... especially because its not the only thing that they showed supposedly running on gt300... according to those demos it seemed gt300 was 100% done, no bugs, no driver issues, nothing... just waiting for lame old lazy tsmc...