Early indication of Nvidia GT200 series performance

[interman]

Sure it's from nvidia internally, but they should at least be really fast. Curious about the price though.

Oh, and we still need to see 4870 and 4870x2 benches.

I assume we'll know a lot more tomorrow when Computex starts.

[Richard_Rahl]

Wow what a good comparison. The Radeon 38xx series cards were designed as an answer to the GeForce 8 series, not the sequel(s) of the Geforce 9800.

[Gazz]

What performance? Their failure rate seems to be a 360 level according to this article: Nvidia GT200 sucessor tapes out - The INQUIRER

THE LAST TIME Nvidia's CPU mouthed off about Intel, the firm followed it up with the stunning NV5800 'Dustbuster'. This time, he mouthed off, and the successor to the GT200 had already taped out. NV is in deep trouble once again.
You heard that right, the successor for the GT200 chip has already taped out, and it too will be nothing special. Documents seen by the INQ indicate that this one is called, wait for it, the GT200b, it is nothing more than a 55nm shrink of the GT200. Don't expect miracles, but do expect the name to change.
There are several problems with the GT200, most of which are near fatal. The first is the die size, 576mm^2, bigger than most Itanics. One might trust Intel to make a chip that big with decent yields, especially if it is basically an island of logic in the middle of a sea of cache. Nvidia using a foundry process doesn't have a chance of pulling this off.
Word has come out of Satan Clara that the yields are laughable. No, make that abysmal, they are 40 per cent. To add insult to injury, that 40 per cent includes both the 280 and the 260 yield salvage parts. With about 100 die candidates per wafer, that means 40 good dice per wafer. Doing the maths, a TSMC 300mm 65nm wafer runs about $5000, so that means each good die costs $125 before packaging, testing and the like. If they can get away with sub-$150 costs per GPU, we will be impressed.

[Richard_Rahl]

Originally Posted by Gazz

What performance? Their failure rate seems to be a 360 level according to this article: Nvidia GT200 sucessor tapes out - The INQUIRER

If I didn't misunderstand this (imho) rather technical article, Nvidia may be giving away marketshare to AMD's 48xx series, simply because of production trouble. If the "Phenom-trouble" doesn't pass on to AMD's GPU section, ATI may get closer to Nvidia, speaking in terms of sales figures.
This is going to be interesting...

[interman]

If the 48xx cards will be reasonably priced it should definitely be interesting.