Probably not as long as you don't trample any implementation specific patents. But the point was more about how it is much harder than just porting an old desig

Probably not as long as you don't trample any implementation specific patents. But the point was more about how it is much harder than just porting an old design to a newer process node to get good performance in modern games, modern hardware is fundamentally different than hardware of even the Geforce 7000 series.