AMD RV770 refresh -> RV790

Shareholders will be pleased. :) Now Nvidia does the binning and cashes in instead of the AIBs - who will not be so amused i guess.
 
And it also spoils all that money spent on OC, XXX, FTW blah blah marketing too, as everyone has the same product. Same thing has happened with GTS250, which effectively wiped-out a load of special versions of 9800GTX+.

There's still room for GTX285 versions of these things, I suppose, so not a complete waste.

NVidia's revenge on them because NVidia was left with inventory? If they'd bought all the chips NVidia wouldn't have had any to "adjust".

Jawed
 
CarstenS said:
Shareholders will be pleased. :) Now Nvidia does the binning and cashes in instead of the AIBs - who will not be so amused i guess.
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I am wondering when Nvidia will announce 40nm GT200 at 200 USD price tag ?
 
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Davros said:
why cant we get ram running like that :(
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You can of course... you just need to make sure you never, ever, ever need more than about 512-1024 MB of memory. Be willing to pay for all memory when the motherboard is bought. Etc. Etc. Etc.

There is no technical reason, its all about biz and costs.
 
Doing the same measurements I did for the rv770 here which showed 305mm2 (outer package), I get (click to zoom):


18.24 * 17.70 = 322 mm2

I think we found out recently that the rv770 is really 272 mm2, so using that as error correction we get 288 mm2

That's a bit larger. Maybe it's even a bit taller than that (something like a pixel), if we consider the mounting hole arrangement square.
 
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For your measuring pleasure:

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AnarchX said:
Was not a SIMD around 20mm^2?
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Definately not... RV770 has 10 SIMDs (that would mean 200mm²) and you cannot fit ROPs, PCI-E, sideport, memory controller, command processor, UVD etc. to 56mm²

I think one SIMD has slightly less than 10mm².
 
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