Pemalite on 22 January 2013
| Soleron said: It's not going to be 15-20%. Clocks are not going to be higher. Die size is not going to go up. |
Yeah it will.
The move from Tahiti XT to Curaçao XT (Aka, Radeon 7970 to 8970) will have die sizes jump from 4.3 Billion transisters to 5.1 Billion.
The OEM Radeon 8970 will be a rebrand of the Radeon 7970 and will be identical in every single way.
Shaders, TMU, ROPS increase by 25% and because it's built on a now mature 28nm node, clocks should be increased too.
Expect the same kind of jump we saw between the Radeon 5000 series and the 6000 series which were on the same 40nm node.
I'm even willing to make a bet on it. ;)
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