haxxiy on 21 September 2012
| JEMC said: Actually Sea Islands are the optimized version of Nothern Islands. That's the reason that allows AMD to put more transistors and make them run at a higher frequency aand at the same time keeping the same power consumption (8850) or even reducing it (8870). |
I'm not sure. It probably still have a way to go on driver updates to be as good, pound per pound, as Northern Islands. Besides, there's a good chance yields are lower with so much transistors packed in. Of course, one year from now things are likely going to be very different. But I don't know, better to wait and see.
