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Old Mar 12, 2012, 08:36 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by LAN_deRf_HA View Post
And it only took what, like a year and a half?
It was always priced competatively.

I also don't think it's as easy as just shrinking the pre-existing GTX580 to 28nm, it would take a hefty amount of reworking. Kepler is intented to replace Fermi as a similar but much more efficient (in terms of power and heat generation) iteration. I don't see them wasting time on reworking that design when they already have the improved version in production.
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