Graphics Non ultra 6800's - 1 or more disabled vertex processors?

This from Guru3d:

Non ultra 6800's - 1 or more disabled vertex processors?

I'll be sure to check mine.

 

They've always been labelled as having only 5 Vertex Shaders AFAIK, certainly when I asked NVIDIA about this the other day they made no excuse... I was told that the GeForce 6800 has always had 5 Vertex Shaders to go with the 12 rendering pipelines.

I've got a meeting with NVIDIA later today, so I'll endevour to dig around a little bit more

 

What about the GTs?

Anyhow - its understandable - you disable a certain section of the chip and you have to chop out the whole pipeline process associated with it.

 

"Non Ultra" as the article states it comprises vanilla 6800s and GTs.

 

just confirmation on this after my meeting with NVIDIA on Thursday... every article that states that the vanilla 6800 has 6 vertex shaders is incorrect - the GeForce 6800 has 5 vertex shaders and it said so in the original press documents that were sent out to all members of the press. Both the 6800GT and the 6800Ultra have a full 16 pixel pipelines and a full 6 vertex shader units.