Captain_Tom on 12 May 2014
| JEMC said: All sounds good until the part where they say that it will still be a 28nm chip. The chip on the 290X is already a very power hungry one, make it bigger and faster and it's a recipe for a disaster. |
I thought this at first, but then really think about it:
-The 1024 HBM VRAM won't use any more power over their current memory configuration
-Using 3072 SP's instead of 2816 would use more power, but not a ton more (Like 5%).
-Clocking it at 1100 MHz wouldn't necessarily make it use a ton more power either if it was binned correctly.
Honestly I think we are looking at a 275-300w part instead of a 250-270w part. IMO that really isn't a big deal as long as they use a proper cooler!!!! Also keep in mind the GTX 480 used 303-350w, and Nvidia thought was ok. Makes anything sub-300w look tame in comparison.
