I also want to thank you for teching me (in a way) even if at the start you were a bit harsh.

Damage control?

When it comes to unreleased hardware, the reality is that *nobody* actually knows. There are a few large, annoying, and loud players on the internet who like to spout wild claims, but the only people who DO know aren’t allowed to say, and the people who don’t know but like to make stuff up will only tell you that they have “their sources.”

The reality is, sources do leak, but how do you separate the legitimacy of a single leak amongst a flood of hyperbola? If people would actually spew less nonsensical crap, we’d probably actually know MORE about the product before it got to production, versus having 37 versions of someone’s fantasy with some minutiae that ends up being semi-correct.

Got any suggestions for reliable sources?

GPU compute likely delves directly into DX11’s “compute shading” capability, and likely has a set transistor count budget. If we said that DX11 compute shaders needed ~30MM transistors, than it would make up (by area) a smaller percentage of a BIG die (say, 300MM total) versus a higher percentage of smaller die (say, 180MM total.) Get the picture?

In reality, it looks like you’re just paraphrasing stuff you ripped off the Inquirer, and Charlie is NOT an insider. He throws mountains of fecal material onto the wall, and claims victory on whatever tiny percentage actually sticks.

He knows about as much about future graphics capabilities as my 60 year old mother.

As for the info “Nvidia Investor Relations tells people that between five to ten per cent of the GT200 die area is dedicated to GPU compute tasks. The GT300 goes way farther here, but let’s be charitable and call it 10 per cent. This puts Nvidia at a 10 per cent areal disadvantage to ATI on the DX11 front, and that is before you talk about anything else. Out of the gate in second place.” at http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137331/a-look-nvidia-gt300-architecture.

Will change the 30 to 20% as i was a tad out.