What would have forced amd's hand? Like all of us knowing that hbm2 wont be ready for another quarter? Common now, this conspiracy theory is getting kind of old. if the card is at 110w while gaming and gives you 390/390x performance. That is historic leap in performance per watt compared to amd's last gen cards that were space heaters and bunch of pieces of shit when it came to power usage.
Why would amd decide not to make a card with 40CUs or 44CUs nothing is stopping them unless they dont want to. Seriously just tell me why? Are they stupid that they intentionally decided to make a 2300 shader card first? May be its a new process and they wanted to make as many as they can first and then ramp it up to higher end die. Remember 28nm, shit was horrible. Look at 1070s no standard models to be found anywhere and no stock, I see founders edition in stock may be one or two here and there. May be amd didn't wanna take a chance with bigger die and horrible yields on this process until it gets more refined.
I really believe AMD didn't want to go straight to a big die given the fuck ups global foundries has done in the past. So they probably went with what they were comfortable with at first and giving them the best yields after they are supplying this chip to so many oem's so they probably decided to focus on one die size for all in the beginning and make as many as they can and then slowly build out bigger chips. Makes perfect sense.
There is no conpericy theory, if these cards can clock up to 1600mhz with no problem, why would AMD not put it into the performance segment with a 300 buck MSRP for a reference card. It would be simple to do right?
Something has stopped them from doing so, pretty simple right?
If we are to believe in the rumors of the overclocks...
You have been touting those overclocks as of late, but when it comes to this you can't.
So why is that?
So why aren't they doing this? Business wise it would be a smart move.
It would lock in 90% of the market with their cards, and only leave nV with 10% or so to play with the current Pascal till midrange Pascal arrives.
And no GF stuff you just stated, its the same damn chip as the one they are releasing in a few days. No need for a 40 or 44 CU chip. So yields should be the same.
You asked me before why AMD aren't binning chips for voltage and power usage. You know why, this is the reason why, some chips can do it some chips can't, and the yields of those chips that can are extremely limited. So the need to do it will actually back fire.
Now if you remember in chip design clocks, are on of the base factors in it. So if they are getting chips with 1600 mhz on a decent basis (even if yields are low), they probably were going for something higher than what they ended up getting in their design schema. Things like that just don't happen by accident.
just like nV, they didn't plan on the clocks they got, it was better than what they expected, but they were planning for high clocks though.
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