01-09-2019 02:22 PM
AMD's reference design follows Nvidia in ditching the blower format, going for a triple fan design instead. That's probably for the best, as the former blowers could get incredibly loud at higher fan speeds. Plus, AMD apparently still needs to cool a 295W chip.
AMD says its 7nm architecture delivers 25 percent faster performance than the previous model, while consuming the same amount of power."
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01-09-2019 11:31 PM
Worth remembering is also that performance wise (in non-RTX games) the 2080 is similar to the 1080 Ti. So the time from March 10 2017 to February 7 2019 is the time AMD needed to catch up with the 1080 Ti. Unless Radeon VII can impress in certain important aspects, presenting a card with 1080 Ti performance Feb 7, which uses even more power than a 1080 Ti, may not put a lot of wind in their sails. The reference 2080 uses 215W and 12 nm fabrication process while 1080 Ti uses 250W and 16nm - if Radeon VII really needs 295W for 7 nm process, then that doesn't seem like a very power efficient architecture (but then again, competing against Nvidia may be incredibly hard). At least nice to see that AMD has made a new card with high-end performance that may provide some competition.
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