CaseyDDR said:
Also for the delay, its clearly to make their cards release better than ATI's. I've jus never had good luck with ATI vid cards working properly in comparison to my Nvidia ones, and this dates back longer than most ppl here have been born :/ lol |
The delay is to get bugs and poor yields sorted out. There have been no functional design changes since the late July tape-out of A1 silicon. Since then, the A2 and A3 revisions are to get yields up from the initial 2% to something manufacturable like 60% and to get clock speeds up from their current 20% behind target (promised 750GFlops, delivered 520). Performance will not be greater than A1 silicon.
ATI used to have driver bugs, before they were bought in 2006 by AMD. Now no one has any complaints about them, at least no more than about the Nvidia one. Why do people feel the need to dredge up 4+ year old driver bugs to bash AMD, when in the intervening time there have been Nvidia driver bugs and hardware failures?
