Nickname said:
Yes I am happy it came in under $500 (though I will wait until they are actually available to see if that is still the case) but come on they had plenty of time they should have had something better than this. I mean the price/performance wouldnt bother me if the thing was at least on par with AMD as far as heat and power efficiency go.
Yes they should have done better given the time, die size, and raw power it has. I mean the GPU is a monster powerhouse but it’s almost like it’s having to do hardware emulation to play video games. I predict too many foreign designers on the team and not enough Americans. Based on the racial breakdown I saw in NCSU’s microarchitecture and memory systems programs I’d say it’s probably 99% indian/chinese and 1% American. Those guys can run circles around us in math but when it comes to being inventive and thinking outside the box they don’t have a clue.
They need to get their construction process up to 100% so they don’t have to cut off processing units like they do now, fully utilize their memory bus, fix the fan speed settings, and quit trying to leap ahead of ATI in areas that don’t matter.