Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
anyone else find this odd that R600 got beaten down by g80 ... yet a couple years down the line and its giving a fair fight to nvidia's next gen arch
arch v. arch? not a valid comparison. check out the gtx480 running tessellation 3x faster. ATi got beat at their own demo.http://www.hardware.fr/articles/787-...e-gtx-480.html

the loss of power efficiency is from process yields. they cant bin chips for the 480 at the clocks they would want and be able to launch at a reasonable date or price.