[crazyjncsu]

Nothing new folks. 23 years ago I bought a RIVA TNT video card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT) where early models (and, conveniently, the ones sent to reviewers) were clocked at 110Mhz. They silently clocked them down to 90Mhz after a month or so before I got mine.

“The TNT shipped later than originally planned, ran quite hot, and was clocked lower than Nvidia had planned at 90 MHz instead of 110 MHz. Originally planned specifications should have placed the card ahead of Voodoo2 in theoretical performance for Direct3D applications, but at 90 MHz it did not quite match the Voodoo2”

I’ve been a bitter man ever since…

[deadmutex]

I am guessing behind the scenes they probably had a target of 110Mhz. They probably hoped to hit that by launch, and sent out review units a bit early. However, whatever fix they were trying probably didn't pan out or they found another failure case in edge case testing (e.g. running it long term in places with high ambient temps), and had to throttle them down for everyone.

So, the critical mistake was probably sending out units too early.

Can totally understand how infuriating it must be because you buy based on the benchmarks, and don't get what you think you're buying.

[spyder]

"So, the critical mistake was probably sending out units too early."

No, the critical mistake is not telling the costumers about the change.

[deadmutex]

Perhaps, but I think it might've been a logistically challenging to do that vs being consistent with what is being reviewed and sold.

[NullPrefix]

Increment the name. Is it really that hard? Product being sold is not the same as the product being reviewed.