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This is kind of like the pen-tile controversy. A full HD pentile display does not have 1920x1080 independent, atomic pixels. Therefore, in my eyes, it's an obvi

by Kenji 12y ago

This is kind of like the pen-tile controversy. A full HD pentile display does not have 1920x1080 independent, atomic pixels. Therefore, in my eyes, it's an obvious lie that the display is full HD. However, marketing says that a pixel is not defined like that and therefore it's okay. "Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam." People can say it's okay because the card actually has 4GB. But where do you draw the line? If 0.5GB had a throughput of 1 byte per second, would it be a scam now? Technically it's still 4GB.

paulmd 12y ago
The issue isn't the quantity of memory - there is physically 4GB of GDDR5 memory soldered to the board, yes. The issue is the number of ROPs. If the board had 64 ROPs - as advertised - then there wouldn't be a fast segment and a slow segment of memory. All 4GB would perform equally, there wouldn't be access contention between the fast segment and slow segment, etc. There's no cute marketing spin you can put on the board being advertised one way and quietly showing up with 1/8th of its memory subsystem disabled. NVIDIA isn't some fly-by-night hardware company like Butterfly Labs or something.