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AMD admits to some borked ATI Radeon HD 4830s

 
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer , Monday 27 October 2008. 10:22:00 Not enough streams making their way into the channel AMD HAS ADMITTED some of its ATI Radeon HD 4830 boards only have only 560 of their advertised 640 stream processors enabled, some even making their way into the channel. After collecting performance data on the boards, Bit-Tech noticed some of the numbers just weren’t adding up.... > > (link)

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