Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
well idk... r600 was most likely revamped a lot... i wouldnt say that r600 in itself was such a great and scalable design... a truly great and scalable design doesnt first suck and needs to be modified greatly to perform well... thats against the whole definition of a very scalable design
yes, r600 had some bad choices. i have to disagree with how scalable the designs are. g80 was is simple as a gpu can get would require more work to make it dx11 compatible than r600 which was way more complex but its features allow it to last for multiple generations(just look at cypress). not that much has changed, they got rid of the ring bus, added LDS, gddr5, HW thread synchronization, double precision and some other small stuff. perhaps thinking too far ahead is why the arch performed poorly.
Quote Originally Posted by DeathReborn View Post
Not forgetting being on that awful 80nm process which caused most if not all of the power problems. Too little texturing power didn't help either.
80HS is not supposed to be efficient, it is designed for high clockspeeds which is why ln2 overclocks were very high. its good for its intended purpose.