vivster on 02 September 2020
| JEMC said: I'll have to disagree with you and computerbase. If the official slides say 5000, 8000 and 10000 shaders, then the cards have those amount of shaders. Otherwise, Nvidia could be sued for false advertising and lose millions. That's why Intel and AMD always say X-cores/Y-threads on their CPUs, and not just Y-cores, because it's not true and can open the door for lawsuits. They aren't dumb enough to make that mistake. |
It's their technology and they can claim as much as they want. It's not that they're wrong, even. A shader isn't a firmly defined entity and the amount of shaders does not define performance. How would you feel if the shader count is correct but it turns out the shaders are actually only half as capable as previous shaders? That wouldn't be false advertising but it would have the same effect.
The current facts are that the numbers do not add up, which means that either the advertised shaders are bad OR not as numerous but better. I opt for the latter.
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