Quote Originally Posted by Carfax View Post
I doubt ATI's engineers would overlook something as obvious as memory bandwidth..

Why is it that so many people assume that the engineers that design these things are stupid?
they used faster memory than nvidia, but on a narrower bus
the cost to add a wider bus, and the cost for extra memory chips seems to offer a worse price/perf ratio than to leave it as is.

if they increased the memory bandwidth by 30-40%, then costs would have probably gone up by 20-30%, while perf might have only gone up by ~10%, and power consumption up by 8-15%

AMD must really be hurting if they have the balls to keep their prices the same since launch