Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
of couse, all of this will be true IF the 512sp variant makes it to launch... and I am not even talking about a hard launch
you mean they could focus on a dual gpu card instead for highend? i think 3 fermis are enough to beat a 5970, right? so then they might never actually make a dual gpu fermi... why bother... extra time and rnd resources, and 3x sli costs them nothing and works immediatly.

and yes, you bring up a good point... the tesla cards will cost 2500$+ and they will not have all shader cores enabled... now why would nvidia sell a fully functional gpu for a fraction of that price to gamers if it could make over 1000$ more, pure margin, if it would sell it as a gpgpu card?

why is there no 512core tesla card? cause it would be a PR stunt only, but in the corporate segment customers arent fooled that easily, if you cant ship 1000+ units, then the product doesnt exist for them...

Quote Originally Posted by Nedjo View Post
This has gotta be the most desperate attempt in the history of the GFX market to stop sales of competing product (and stalling the sales of your own lineup) by upping the dust around the phantom product that will not be out in the next two or three months! Bravo nVidia
i think their no1 goal was to get the nvidia stock to rise again... lets wait n see if that works, might take a week before ANAL-ysts pick this up