| alexxonne said: ....Running the GPU at 2ghz was looking like an unreachable target with the old frequency strategy with the new paradigm we're able to run way over that, in fact we have to cap GPU freq. at 2.23ghz..." |
Look, I have worked alongside electronic engineers, chip designers, etc in my life. I have been in chip factories when you weren't even born. All I can say is that electronics engineers, chip designers, name your special profession, has a "proprietary language" that gets the more irritating the more it gets deeper into the territory it covers - until it is no longer understandable to average Jane/Joe. When Cerny gave his GDC talk, he was talking in "chip design language". I understand that language (to a certain extent), you don't. The above quote you choose to handpick does NOT mean that Cerny tried to build and test chips at 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, 2.2GHz (and all the bullshit rumours on random blogs going along with it) before having his enlightment. He is a very experienced chip designer (in the conceptual sense, AMD has to do the grunt work in the end), amongst other things. Are we really going into the "referring to authority" mine field? I'm out here and now.
