Quote Originally Posted by W1zzard View Post
if nvidia is smart (they probably are) they put some spares on their gpu which is basically extra pieces of hardware that can replace pieces where defects are in the silicon. for example you could imagine having a 5th GPC cluster that can replace one with defects. if you do the proper math you can compute spare designs that are statistically going to increase your per-die yield even though such measures increase the die area
And you think than only Nvidia can resort to that kind of techniques?
If one of them is doing something like that, you can bet the other is too.