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

[Lafiel]

Slimebeast said:

Lafiel said:

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?

afaik tests with Apples A9 chip (produced both at TSMC and Samsung) showed a bit of an advantage in 16nm at first (longer battery time when gaming/watching videos), but tests a few month later found no more discrepancies in efficiency

from my experience more advanced stepping can definitely improve the chip quality and not only the yields and Global Foundries as a lincensee of Samsung might be quite a bit behind at this, but should catch up once gains become smaller