| JEMC said: Hmm About a month ago Videocardz published an article with a blurry pic of a Vega board with the power connectors exposed. It had a pair of 8+6-pin power connectors: <SNIP> The engineering samples use at least 225W of power. |
Well. It's about 2.5x larger than polaris which in turn was a 150w TDP part. I wouldn't be surprised if it's hitting 250w or more.
I say 150w at a minimum due to the two PCI-E cables.
| JEMC said: Their conclusion or estimation, was that Vega was between 520-540 mm2. Not too far from the numbers you've seen, and still smaller than Fiji.
With all that said, it was a no brainer that Vega would be bigger (and therefore more expensive) and use more power than Polaris. The question is how much. |
The thing with Fiji was that it wasn't built on a cutting edge process, it was built on a very mature at-the-time 28nm process, so they could take that process to it's extreme... And AMD and nVidia did.
14nm isn't at the same point of it's maturity as Fiji was on 28nm, I think if Fiji had twice the amount of DRAM, it might have actually aged better, but sadly that didn't end up being the case.
Without a doubt, Vega is Fiji's successor. And that is a good thing, AMD needs to return to the high-end, even if they are simply just going to rebadged GPU's from the last 6 years in their "new" 500 series lineup and sprinkle Vega on top.
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