Practical question - Possibility of GPU production fallout hitting the market

[64dimensions]

In this GPU starved market, what do manufacturer's do with GPU's that don't meet specs?

I also haven't seen any metric similar to ASIC quality for Nvidia cards that at least the end user could at least use to monitor what they are getting.

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[fanatic26]

What they do is take an order of chips and test them. The best go in the higher end cards, the ones that fail testing get knocked down to the lower end cards. For example the 1080 and 1070 have the same processor. The 1070 failed in some aspect so they lock down cores/whatever on the chips so they run as a 1070. If they cant run in a 1070, they becomes a 1060 etc

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Yep, Fanatic got it right. The process is called 'binning' and is the exact same thing done by Intel, AMD, etc with their CPU's. The chips for any given family are tested as they come off of the the production line and depending on how well they perform are assigned a speed rating, sometime locked, sometimes unlocked for those who want to play.