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lemonadesoda · Oct 23, 2008, 03:03 PM

This could be deliberate. Perhaps the 4830 was just a little too good and there was a fear of cannabalising higher performance part sales.

Even with 560 shaders, the performance is great. And they needed a gap between 4830 and 4850 and 4870 to warrant pricing in "different market segments".

I'm sure they werent expecting a genius like w1zzard to spot that so early on.

There is no way this was "a mistake". A GPU manufacturer isnt going to do a simple math mistake about the number of shaders on/off.

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Oct 23, 2008, 03:03 PM	#13
lemonadesoda Eligible for custom title Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,337 (2.17/day) Thanks: 749 Thanked 960 Times in 710 Posts System Specs	This could be deliberate. Perhaps the 4830 was just a little too good and there was a fear of cannabalising higher performance part sales. Even with 560 shaders, the performance is great. And they needed a gap between 4830 and 4850 and 4870 to warrant pricing in "different market segments". I'm sure they werent expecting a genius like w1zzard to spot that so early on. There is no way this was "a mistake". A GPU manufacturer isnt going to do a simple math mistake about the number of shaders on/off.