Lord_Exodia said:They might be trying to charge everybody 2x the normal price to compensate, and this could have damaged relations with nv and possibly even ati. This is only speculation in my part but it seems to be the normal for these corporate giants to charge others for their wrongdoings. If this is true and the 90Nm GTX Cards are 32 pipelines this could be a help since nvidia will rely less on the memory and more on raw GPU Performance. Hopefully ATI and nvidia have other GDDR Ram manufacturers to go to, it's never safe to put all your eggs in one basket.
Doesn't work that way. GPU performance can never compensate for bandwidth since they are responsible for different aspects of processing. Games are going to be more shader heavy in the future but that doesnt mean bandwidth requirements are going to stop growing. AFAIK only Hynix and Samsung have announced GDDR4 parts, 512Mbit from Hynix and 256Mbit from Samsung.