Obviously those will come later, like it did for the xtx 5870xxx version, etc. Though Barts is supposed to be pin compatible with Cypress, you would think OC versions would be ready from start.
That EVGA card will likely come with guidelines.
Marketing yes, but engineering common sense won in this case. Why overkill if you can get where you want with smaller chip and reaching desired performance = bigger profits. Nvidia may brag about advantage in extreme tesselation, which will never see games in the GF100 lifetime, and probably few generations down the road as well.Nah, anything more would be just fine if they would bring GPU which would breeze trough it.
I'm sure that AMD marketing will change the tone when their GPU solves the small triangle problem.
I'm kinda disappointed they aren't releasing a "GTX475" or whatever they would call it full chip GF104. I think it could be even competitive with HD6870 when also clocked around 750Mhz. Guess should wait for official independent benchmarks, but the GTX460 1GB looks like a HD6850 competitor only. (Of course, that would kill GTX465 and GTX470 completely but really GTX470 looks like a bit heavyweight and costly for nvidia as a HD6870 competitor.)
AMD says "checkmate" to some unnamed green competitor?
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