Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Originally Posted By: SkateZilla
...Hence the $5000 Price tag of GP100, they simply have no yields w/ the 610+mm^2 Die, .. there arent enough working samples, and the cost of the working samples.
Nvidia went that path once before (a few years back), as I remember it. They only managed a couple thousand GPUs that worked. They sold them to the public at a loss -- so they could continue to advertise that "Nvidia was the fastest".
Of course, lately they've been doing well.
Meantime, AMD said years ago, they would make fast cards. However, it was pointless to compete for the "fastest card on the market" with Nvidia because Nvidia would "do whatever necessary and spend whatever necessary" to produce the fastest card and win. "Fastest" has always been the "bedrock" of Nvidia GPU brand recognition. If Nvidia's fastest card isn't the fastest made, they really screwed up (or AMD did really good).
