| JEMC said: Well, of course the newer microarchitectures will have a big impact on performance. What's the point of making them if they don't improve things? I expect them to be more like 350mm2, and while some of that die space will be "wasted" with newer features (DX12 and Vulkan stuff), HBM controllers are smaller than the GDDR 5 ones. I don't have 480X/1070 details either, but they are supposed to be the second best cards (I hope AMD stops the "X" and "non-X" nonsense and launches less cards), they can't be sloughs. |
.@Bold Not as big as going to a newer process node. It's not to say that newer microarchitectures don't give us performance benefits but we mostly owe it to moore's law to give performance boosts ...
Personally, I think the future is a lot like the Intel Larrabee. One day, we might even get software rendering on GPUs!
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