Well kyle was right. Its just that alot of people thought he was mad but in reality thats just his style. Here is what happened.
AIB cards are coming out and kyle himself reported that they can do between 1.48 to 1.6 but that range it really depends on the chip..
That proves his point.
AMD wanted close to fury performance but the card was drawing too much power at those clocks and they were only designing one chip with 2306 shaders and going for max clocks and efficiency.
So they turned that bitch down to 1266 and priced it cheap and made a mistake of putting a 6 pin connector on there. I don't know why they didn't put an 8 pin connector and called it 160w TDP for the power usage. Blows my mind.
Kyle's report about AIBs hitting 1.48 - 1.6 just shows that this chip is capable of doing more but with much higher power draw.
Which actually makes me glad they didn't try to throw vega on the brand new 14nm process and made it a mess. I think they will probably have few more revisions of this chip by the time vega comes out. We might even see a 485 that is a different revision and improves on clock speed and efficiency.
It seems that AMD is having all kinds of variations in chips. We are getting 1266 and then probably 1.5-1.6 max but at current state at GF its requiring too much power to run at those speeds that they weren't comfortable with.
I truly think it should use much less power at 14nm but I think it is just taking them longer to get there. I hope another 6 months will do the trick and they can refine this process well enough in time for Vega.
Indeed, but time is not AMD friend at the moment, they really cannot afford to sit around trying to iron this out while nVidia is preparing for their next release. Forget the whole pcie spec thing, I agree with you and really hope AMD just get the power consumption issue under control, I was just surprised how much power it is using at 14nm process.