The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[saaya]

9k wafers total of the A silicon.
Not all those wafers will be ready for launch, they have to space out the availability until B1/B2 is ready, late Q2/early Q3 if the B silicon rumor is true.

do you think B is still GF100 or GF104?

Now i know why the multi-quote button changes to Saaya

that was a gift from one of the admins a few years back, heh

He also claimed the high end Fermi part had been castrated to 448 SPs.

no, he said there will be 512core parts but probably only very very few...

No PC exclusive games = No need for better performance.

yes, so true and so sad...

I am following the GPU-Buiness since 10 years. There was never the case, that the high end part was a cut down version.
And so it will be in March. Even if nvidia got only 10.000 512SPs at start, it would be dumb to not release this part.

bs! you dont know what your talking about man!
do some research!

they removed ''...you may even be able to buy one before anyone else'' from: www.nvidia.com/object/paxeast.html

they must have realized it souded like a joke

wow... really?

If I say, if ( and that's a BIG IF ) the GTX 470 turns out to be just a bit faster than the 5870, and the GTX 480 about 30-40% faster than the 5870, would you call that a failure ? a success ? or just ok ?

depends on the price
if gtx480 costs 400$ and is 35% faster than a 5870 thats VERY nice!!!
if it costs 35% more for being 35% faster, then its ok... (~533$)

if the 470 costs 250$ and is between a 5850 and 5870, thats VERY nice!!!
if it costs about the same as a 5850 (~300$) and is as fast as a 5870, then thats ok...