geforce 6800 non ultra will be 12 pipes

[EMunEeE]

Imagine if the low-end card was 4x1 and was just an NV40 with 12 pipes disabled :D

"I softmodded my 6200U into a 6800U!!! woooot!!!! this is the greatest day of my life!!! ;D

O_o

I guess they might go as low as 8, but i don't think they will have that amount of faulty chips to satisfy the mainstream market with semi-faulty NV40 chips. I think they will have a different core for every family. As in, high-end, midrange, low-end. I'm hoping to see high end 16x1/12x1, mid 8x1, low 4x1.

Awesome, only kicker is youll have some low quality RAM and your core will be gasping for memory bandwidth.

[Dazz]

Nope they arn't disabled they just an't there they can add the pipelines they need this makes it cost effective and stops lower end parts canabilzing high end products.

[Geforce4ti4200]

are you saying its a different core alltogether? whatever happened to the nv40 that didnt make 16 pipes?

[Dazz]

It done in sections so they can add extra pipelines to the core this helps keep R&D costs down as there is no need to develop other cards Also this stops people from enabling the extra pipelines like with the RADEON9500 & 9800SE so it doesn't canalize the higher end cards.

[-=DVS=-]

Think they could add more then 16 pipe , if its scales so well maybe go as far as 32 pipe refresh :drooling:

[Dazz]

Na not without a massive die shrink.