fatslob-:O on 06 April 2016
| JEMC said: We'll see. The 980 also looked like a let down from the Titan Black because of its lower specs (on paper), and yet it gave roughly a 15% increase in performance. And the new Pascal consumer parts would run at extremely high frequencies. I'm confident we can see a 40% increase once they launch. |
A good half of Maxwell's improvement came from being able to run at higher clockspeeds and the other half was IPC ...
Pascal does not have the benefit of the former this time around when it's already pushing the thermal limit of a 300 watt TDP and an overclocked GM200 chip can clock almost just as high as Pascal ...
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