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Pretty much this. This is what nvidia should have done with the 400 series. Release fully enabled GF104 with 384 CUDA cores (as the GTX 480) and slip past the 5870 for a lower/similar price. It was almost the exact same situation but nvidia chose a smarter route this time. Last time around their midrange was so good they had to cripple it to not ruin the rest of their line up.Originally Posted by tpi2007 
I honestly don't know what is so surprising about this.
I don't even believe Nvidia was surprised with the performance. They built a gaming oriented card, while sacrificing compute performance.
I'm also suprised nobody mentioned this yet: Nvidia has done this before. The GTX 460 1GB was faster than the GTX 285, and could be clocked much higher than the stock clocks it came at. Mine can run at 775 Mhz on stock voltage, and some could run at EVGA FTW 850 Mhz levels with added voltage.
Here for the comparison at Anadtech.

I honestly don't know what is so surprising about this.
I don't even believe Nvidia was surprised with the performance. They built a gaming oriented card, while sacrificing compute performance.
I'm also suprised nobody mentioned this yet: Nvidia has done this before. The GTX 460 1GB was faster than the GTX 285, and could be clocked much higher than the stock clocks it came at. Mine can run at 775 Mhz on stock voltage, and some could run at EVGA FTW 850 Mhz levels with added voltage.
Here for the comparison at Anadtech.











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