[citation][nom]sillydoc[/nom]The rumor is already out on the WEB - the GTX214 will use GDDR5 - I did not see the specific bit width, though, or don't recall it - one assumes 256 with the GDDR5[/citation]
HaHa, and the rumour is already out on the web that AMD are already shipping their 40nm refresh parts for the HD4800s replacement, but that's equally spurious and I give it the same weight, Zero! Mainly because people like yourself confuse the real rumours of lesser parts and thing something else huge is coming.
As for a GTX214, you point me to anything credible with that. Because obviously you don't get how nV naming works, a GTX214, would be at the bottom of the scale (GTX295 being towards the top), so very unlikely to warrant a 256bit memory interface; which is probably why you conveniently forget any details, because they are as over-inflated BS as the rest of your info.
As for the G(T)212, G214, G216, G218 they're a long way off (40nm parts) and of little consequence to these, with the G214 being competition for the HD4830 replacing the aging G9600GT not anything special, and certainly not worthy of the cost of supporting a memory bitwidth above 256.
[citation][nom]sillyconedork[/nom]Do you really give a dign dang if Nvidia is "hurting from that" just because you heard their wafer is bigger ?[/citation]
Dude, once again you don't know WTF you're talking about, and for someone with silicon in their name that's laughable. nV uses the same size TSMC wafer as ATi (300mm), neither is bigger or smaller in that department, it is the size of their chip (don't need to hear about it, they are easily visible on the card), and thus the yield of chips per EQUALLY SIZED 300mm wafer. Seriously you just look more ignorant the more you try to post about such things, because you are light on the information and heavy on the fanboi mis-information.
[citation][nom]sillyconedork[/nom] They have 192, 256, 384, 448, 512 - I may have missed a few - but NVIDIA has shown flexibility there when ATI has not. (I skipped 128 )[/citation]
That's not a demonstration of flexibility, that's a demonstration of the limits of their memory controllers. They pushed to 512bit AFTER ATi, still have yet to hit GDDR4 or GDDR5 in any major way. Those un-balanced numbers are indications or their inabilities not their flexibility, just like the NVIO is not a demonstration of flexibility, but a demonstration that they ran out of die space without making the GPU even more Ginormic. An NVIO-style I/O chip makes alot of sense on a multi-GPU solution, but not a single one, just like the unbalanced memory interfaces are a sign of their limitations not their benefits. It doesn't take much work to disable the memory lanes. Just disable the ROP/controller interface and voila, you can cut the pathway in whatever increments that offers you, which is exactly what nV did, cripple their chips, not make them more flexible anymore than ATi's, ATi just limited their crippling to the standard increments like 512->256bit, because they're never been memory limited so much as TMU or ROP limited in the R6xx series, and accounting for standard increments i buffer size is much easier than using 320MB and 640MB which offers no advantage over 256 & 512 but costs more and is nowhere near as capable as the much larger sizes.
[citation][nom]sillydoc[/nom]HERE WE HAVE A PERFECT EXAMPLE...
... the 260 ALWAYS has 896 ram on it - so THERE ARE EXACTLY 2 KINDS, 192 and 216 shaders. TWO KINDS[/citation]
That's not correct, as there are actually 3 types of GTX260 SOFAR: original 65nm GTX260 , 65nm GTX 260 - 216 shaders, and now 55nm GTX260s. All of them will say GTX 260 and 896MB RAM on them, whether or not the AIBs actually put the other information on the box or the customer even knows the difference to begin with has yet to be seen. This is very similar to the GF8800GTS situation where it's to nV's benefit to confuse people as to not hurt their efforts to dump the old ones on the ignorant while replacing the new for the savvy buyer. Savvy?
Seriously you really just aren't very informed are you, even of your favourite company's own lineup? Although your ability to combine a lack of style with a lack of substance is pretty impressive.
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