GF100 reviews are out

[lfm]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

The consumer who pays for a non-DP-capable chip gets a non-DP-capable chip. The consumer who pays for a DP-capable chip gets a DP-capable chip.

Those of us who have been around since the early 486dx/486sx/487 days may remember a similar situation.

[msft]

http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVID...anded/?page=15

Nvidia OpenCL not support DP ?

[S485122]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

Suppose (it's an economic argument -- sorry)

You missed my point : economic or commercial reasons can be nonsense when one looks at the effort done versus the benefits gained. In other words the economy changed from being a mean to being a goal.

[To come back to your examples, it makes sense to sell processors that failed some test with lower specifications so that it passes another set of specifications : let nothing be wasted. What is a waste is to deliberately impair a good processor to occupy a market or to maximise profit. Commercially it can make sense, but not for society as a whole : an object is fabricated and part of it is broken before putting it to use. (Of course one could imagine situations where that could make sense, f.i. safety concerns. But that is not the case here.)]

Jacob

[msft]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24000&page=3

Delve a little deeper, handily not mentioned in any briefing, and NVIDIA is limiting the double-precision speed of the desktop GF100 part to one-eighth of single-precision throughput, rather than the one-fifth speed of the Radeon HD 5000-series. We'll have to wait for the Tesla parts before that's restored to the one-half speed the GF100 is capable of.

[joblack]

Originally Posted by msft

http://hothardware.com/Articles/NVID...anded/?page=15

Nvidia OpenCL not support DP ?

Sure but the hardware is slowed down artificially.

[nucleon]

Anyone getting one?

Dammit, I want to see some Prime benchmarks on this thing :)

-- Craig

[msft]

http://vga.zol.com.cn/171/1719517.html
In Beijing you can get GTX470 now

[ET_]

Originally Posted by msft

http://vga.zol.com.cn/171/1719517.html
In Beijing you can get GTX470 now

I like it...

Luigi