Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
The point is this; after all this time THIS is the best they can do? Really? Really? A half assed card that has to be harvested because the yields still blow after 3 respins. You gotta be kidding me; even the RV520 and R600 weren't this bad, neither was the NV30 for that matter; at least they could be binned for a full part!

Also ffs about the 8800GT; Ok Fine its 112 shaders and was harvested down from 128; fair enough. That said it was also single slot and didn't out wattage like fat-bastard on a burrito binge as Fermi appears to do. If a 480 part is the best that nvidia can do then god help them when Hecatoncheres comes out this summer.
i dont think you really care about the shaders...
think about it, if a gtx480 would be as fast or faster than a 5970, would you be complaining about parts of the gpu being broken or disabled? i dont think so... people will complain about disabled shader cores, slow memory clocks, high tdps... but what they are really miffed about is the performance which is lower than expected... cause its lower than what nvidia claimed and made everybody expect...