| JEMC said: I agree with the others, that Intel-Nvidia partnership came out of nowhere and it's unsettling. More so with Nvidia purchsing a part of Intel. Well, Nvidia couldn't make their own x86 CPUs because Intel refused to sell them a license and now they've managed to make Intel do the CPUs they want. What a time to be alive. Also yes, this move does cast a dark shadow for Intel's ARC. Meanwhile, AMD goes and launches the 7700 out of nowhere. Why? Why now? What's the point of this card? |
To get rid of all the dies that couldn't hit at least 7700XT performance. With how high yields are at TSMC, they likely had very few dies with more than 6 bad CUs. Now they have enough to make a SKU, this will probably be OEM only. Any die with 40 to 53 functional CUs would have been set aside for this card.
