Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
trust me, if they had GK110 ready to go, it would be out now and selling for 800$
if they wait until september, they sure dont save money by sitting on a ready part, but they will loose about 200-300$ per gpu that would have sold between now and then.
and 2 months ago when the 7900s launched, they would have been to late in the process to make any drastic changes like launching in 2 months vs 10 months. their schedule internally has been set for september (if that really is their launch time) for atleast a year now.
Exactly. Holding back a new core that could absolutely stomp AMD would make very little financial sense. Launching GK104, which is a smaller die on the unknown 28nm process gives NVIDIA the chance to figure things out before they release a massive 250-300w monster. That is of course if NVIDIA chooses that route. Who knows, maybe they'll instead release a dual-GPU card based on binned GK104 cores. I'd be happier to see NVIDIA adopt the AMD route of more smaller, efficient cores.


Now, how in the heck is AMD going to counter this? Can't really ramp up the clocks on Tahiti to gain another 30% in performance. Couldn't imagine AMD would want to get in to the gigantic GPU market that NVIDIA has traditionally run in. Do they release a 7990 with binned Tahiti cores? Or figure out their scaling issues between pitcairn and tahiti(7870/7970)? Would be great if it all came down to driver optimizations.