Sorry, I hate to bump an old thread, but making a new post would lose context.
Because of family problems I had taken an indefinite leave of absence from work in March, and only occasionally even had contact with them. However today Chris gave me a call asking me to continue testing the GT cored cards I had worked on before. Now granted, I am getting old and a lil insane and even have heard of the Nvidia GT cores since leaving.........but I ain't never tested them, and told Chris I had no test data on them. He simply laughed, which kinda pissed me off to be honest. Anywho, long story short, the dipwads had lied to me. I guess I should take a step back for a second....
When I was testing the "97" cores, the fookers had lied to me.....they were what is now known in public releases as the GT200. And DAM they were sneaky! They had me start the test on what is now in a 9800 and we got tons of data...impressive data. Then Chris et. al. had me hold off a day or two while they tweaked some things. BS! the tweak was changing to the GT200 cores. And I know they laughed their asses off when I came back with MUCH better performance data, and congratulated them on what I thought were code tweaks. I'ma gonna kill'm!
Because of my sudden departure, they never got a chance to expose their lil joke and rub my face in it. Anyway, the call was to ask me to help test some very new stuff, and I believe Chris after bitching him out. I had to refuse the testing offer because of my family, but he claimed it was to test a 8 cored(dual quad core GPUs) card built on 45nm process....of the GT200 chip. The 45nm process would allow quad cores where there is now one.....and it should run cooler. The test card is dual GPU's equaling 8 cores. A second test card is a single quad core, which I assume is Nvidia's counter punch to dual ATI 4850x2 in crossfire config.
My guess is if that dual quad GT200 ever sees the public light of day, it will take prolly 250-275 watts just to power the dam vid cards :O On a 65nm process it would take.........OMFG wattage!