| JEMC said: @Alby: Well, Apple's A9 is made in both 16FF+ by TSMC and 14LPE by Samsung, and the 16nm one uses less power, so I don't know what's more embarrassing... A few more R9 380X reviews:
Also, I've read on another forum that this site written in gibberish japanese says that AMD will demonstrate the new Crimson drivers and a new product (Fury X2?) this weekend. We'll see. |
Yeah, I just found embarrassing comparing what actually is that each different company calls 20, 16 or 14nm, but other factors can influence power consumption, for example the quality of interconnections, insulation layers, a layout made to minimize interconnection length, etc.
About AMD, news and reviews look quite positive overall, not outstanding, but not bad at all, and this is even better if we consider that biggest novelties are expected later next year. The only negative thing IMVHO is the new K12 ARM CPU delayed to 2017 due to lack of resources to support a faster development and release of both it and the new x86 chips. But who knows, maybe that delay can go to AMD advantage, for example if by them more than 4GB will be common enough even on mid and mid-low range ARM devices, AMD 64bit chip will have a larger potential market since launch, not to mention that a 14nm process more refined, tuned and tested than in 2016 will be precious for chips where low power consumption is of the essence.
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