Does Nvidia use defective chips for its GPUs that have disabled SMXs?

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Just out of curiousity. For example, the GTX 760 has 2 disabled SMXs, so does the chips in the GTX 760 has 2 defective SMXs or Nvidia just disabled a perfectly good chip? Same question with the GTX 670, GTX 660 ti, GTX 650 ti, etc.
 


Yea it was a mistake, i meant 770 not 780.
 
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