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nanarchy on 16 June 2016
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Pemalite said:
nanarchy said:

neither Polaris10 or Polaris11 seem quite powerful enough to meet what was announced. personally I would not trust wikipedia as a source for anything. regardless VEGA10 rumours have it "supposedly" coming in at around 7-8tflops at launch, which if even close to true would mean this could be in the ballpark, but can't see how that could be made affordable.

Wikipedia is more accurate than your use of Tflop.
Check the citations.

AMD's Vega whilst based on Craphics Core Next gen 4.0, has a completely different memory subsystem, likely more (And maybe better) geometry engines with a superior ROP/TMU count, caching etc'. It will have a different efficiency curve than Polaris.
Thus even if Vega had the same amount of Tflop as Polaris, it would still be faster.

 

Tflops is currently THE ONLY thing we have to go on at this point, I don't like it anymore than you but you can't do any estimates any other way as it was litterally the ONLY piece of information provided. wikipedia is a pile of shit and whether any given article is correct is potluck.