[Videocardz] Exclusive: AMD working on Tonga GPU

[psolord]

For a moment there I read Thonga and was like wtf?

 

[Headfoot]

I'm sure you said the same when Nvidia brought out the 600 series months after AMD brought out the 7970

Silly thread-crapping aside- where the hell are NV, and we assume AMD, getting all these efficiencies gains from on the same process node? Is it simply the increased caches to reduce hits to memory and allow lower bandwidth?

At this point I would be happy with a full-on NV maxwell flagship at 28nm. We would assume at same wattage a ~30-50% performance increase, right?

Same process node, very different process refinement. Much like how the Snapdragon 600 and 800 are both 28nm, there is a new particular process (not node) for 28nm at TSMC. There is also a new(ish) 28nm process at Global Foundaries, the one Beema/Mullins is on. Its why Hawaii could be so beefy without enormously increasing the die size. They're probably backporting the density and power enhancements from Hawaii and adding even more secret sauce.

 

[Erenhardt]

They're probably backporting the density and power enhancements from Hawaii and adding even more secret sauce.

The are:

cramming shaders in .

Whatever that means