The Fermi Thread - Part 3

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Nope:

I just dont know anything about GPGPU. Ive never been bothered about it.

'nuff said.

You may not be an ATI fanboi but I would certainly consider you an ATI troll.

Did anyone mention Nvidia's lack of double-redundancy between layers? Apparently that is the cause of the horrible leakage, because TSMC isn't able to properly make the metal-metal interconnects and ATI added double redundancy due to experience with RV740.

i believe you're thinking of the vias, when tsmc first began producing 40nm wafers they had problems with via failure and channel width. the via problem has since been fixed (amd's rv740 had double vias), but the channel width is still too large. wide channels cause leakage and extra heat, but can also provide A LOT of overclocking headroom (think amd's TWKR chips) with the right cooling. i'm looking forward to k|ngp|n's ln2 results with the 480's.

btw, word on the street is that Bx revisions of gf100 will fix the channel width problem.