Originally Posted by
scaryjim
I've simply pointed out that some thing are rumour and speculation - like released dates for Pascal, chip layout for Vega, whether nvidia will seed sympathetic press with early Pascal samples and ask for particular benchmarks to be use - while others are established fact.
I did point out previously nvidia may have had a variety of reasons for showing non-Pascal boards: they might be concerned about revealing business-sensitive information, they might be trolling AMD by implying they're having problems with Pascal, or Pascal might genuinely not be ready yet. We don't know for sure what the reason behind using Maxwell on stage in January was. That might mean that Pascal is actually coming along well and will launch alongside, or even before, Polaris.
But NVidia could've said they were using Maxwell to demo the PX2 board. Instead that said they were using Pascal, when they clearly weren't. So whether some people might say it was just a mock-up so they had something to show is irrelevant. Their CEO got up on stage, in a press briefing, and lied about a product. In my book that's just out and out shady.