So AMD 480 is a dud, not nearly the amazing deal after all

[Slimebeast]

Lafiel said:

Slimebeast said:

Oh yeah, not I recall I've seen Vega rumoured to have 4096 stream processors. But hasn't Fury X also got 4096 stream processors though and is clocked over 1Ghz? And yet Vega is supposed to be 60% faster than it? I don't follow. That would require architectural improvements out of this world.

Personally I don't mind Fury X power use, unless I buy two and do crossfire. Which I likely won't since one Vega GPU probably will cost $650 or something.

I heard rumors the Vega is produced at TSMC in 16nm, like the 10XX Nvidia chips, so maybe it can clock at 1.6GHz+ like those chips

Wow. So does that mean that it's a common opinion now that the TSMC 16nm tech is superior to the 14nm from GlobalFoundries/Samsung?

Because performance from a node can't mature, right? Only yields can mature, but not the tech itself, or? Or can it be improved and tweaked a little bit?