Pemalite on 16 July 2013
| JEMC said: The 7970GHz edition is already the most power hungry chip available, if the 9970 uses even more (which will) it will need a hell of a cooling system.
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Are you absolutely 100% positive it will use more power? Got any facts to back up that claim? Links even?
AMD has a good idea on the transister characteristics at that fabrication process, so they will be able to use optimal transisters at that node.
There is a reason that the 6900 series is both faster and more power efficient (Die size+Performance per watt) than the 5870 even though they were both at 40nm. :P
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