
Originally Posted by
zerazax
Success? Based on what? Pure performance?
If I made a GPU that netted me a $15 profit while drawing 400w and heats up my coffee everyday, but is 20-30% faster than the 5970, but was half a year late and is in extremely limited numbers, is that a success? Okay that was an extreme example but my point is: You can't look at performance numbers in a vacuum and call the card a success.
Not to mention that if new rumors are true and the 480 is indeed 480sps instead of a full 512, then that's a failure to meet your own set requirements.
Furthermore, if the power/tdp numbers are true, it's going up against 5970s (don't bother rehashing 2v1 gpus, we are talking price and power figures since those are objective categorization points)
"Just" 10-20% (overall, which remains to be seen) after 6 months is dissapointing. It's not a flop like R600 (where it was slower) or NV30, but consider that GT200 vs RV770 had similar performance deltas but GT200 was almost a month earlier.
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